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MINFILE No 092HSE159

File Created:	28-Feb-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	01-Jan-0001	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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		NMI
Name	NEWTON CREEK PLATINUM	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H046
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H07E, 092H07W
Latitude	049º 26' 23''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 48' 08''	Northing	5478662
		Easting	659325
Commodities	Platinum, Copper	Deposit Types	M05 : Alaskan-type Pt+/-Os+/-Rh+/-Ir
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Newton Creek Platinum showing occurs on Newton Creek, 21 kilometres west-southwest of Princeton.

A greenstone dyke, approximately 18 metres wide, possibly related to the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, is mineralized with copper sulphide (chalcopyrite?) veins over about 0.3 metre. A sample of the sulphide assayed 8.6 grams of platinum per tonne (Geological Survey of Canada Economic Geology Report No. 13, page 93).

Bibliography

EM GEOFILE 2000-2, 2000-5

EMPR ASS RPT 27009

EMPR EXPL 1988-B71-B81

EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 218-222; 1987, pp. 281-294

EMPR OF *1986-7, p. 11; 1988-25

EMPR P 1992-6

GSC EC GEOL *No. 13, pp. 93, 94 (1934)

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Findlay, D.C. (1963): Petrology of the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, Yale District, British Columbia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Queen's University, 415 pages.