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File Created: 21-Jan-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  03-Jun-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name FRM 73 (99) Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H046
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07W
Latitude 049º 26' 02'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 49' 10'' Northing 5477977
Easting 658096
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
M05 : Alaskan-type Pt+/-Os+/-Rh+/-Ir
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The FRM 73 (99) showing outcrops along the crest of the ridge separating Newton and Badger creeks, 3.5 kilometres south-southeast of the summit of Lodestone Mountain and 22 kilometres west-southwest of Princeton.

Four zones of chalcopyrite are hosted in hornblende clinopyroxenite in the western margin of the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, near the contact with Upper Triassic Nicola Group metavolcanics. The zones trend north to northwest over lengths of up to 30 metres. They appear to be confined to fracture zones of similar strike. The three largest zones are 4 to 6 metres wide. Assays of up to 0.5 per cent copper and 0.04 per cent nickel are reported (Assessment Report 2742, page 8). The showing was trenched and sampled by Fort Reliance Minerals Ltd. in 1970.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2742, 15326, 27009
EMPR EXPL 1988-B71-B81
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294
EMPR GEM 1970-382
EMPR OF 1988-25
EMPR P 1992-6
GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 6, pp. 399-425 (1969); Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)
Findlay, D.C. (1963): Petrology of the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, Yale District, British Columbia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Queen's University, 415 pages.

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