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MINFILE No 092HSE182

File Created:	13-Nov-1991	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	22-Apr-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	HEDLEY CHIEF	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H040
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H08E
Latitude	049º 23' 09''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 06' 10''	Northing	5474385
		Easting	710255
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Hedley Chief showing is situated on the west side of Winkler Creek, 3.5 kilometres northwest of Hedley.

This area on the south side of Stemwinder Mountain is underlain by argillite, siltstone and limestone of the Upper Triassic Stemwinder Mountain Formation (Nicola Group). These sediments are intruded by diorite and gabbro sills and dykes of the Early Jurassic Hedley Intrusions.

Some stripping carried out by Hedley Chief Mines near the creek in 1936 exposed some pyrite and pyrrhotite, with traces of chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite, in "green silicate rocks" (skarn?).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1936-D5 EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 101-105; 1986, pp. 65-79; 1987, pp. 59-80 EMPR OF 1987-10; 1988-6 GSC MAP 568A; 888A; 41-1989 GSC MEM 243 GSC OF 2167, pp. 59-80