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File Created: 09-Jan-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  08-Jun-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name G.H. 6 Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H049
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08W
Latitude 049º 26' 43'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 17' 57'' Northing 5480464
Easting 695768
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The G.H. 6 showing is located on the steep north bank of the Similkameen River, about 230 metres north of Nine Mile Creek Indian Reserve 4 and 15.5 kilometres east of Princeton.

Copper mineralization occurs in leucocratic quartz diorite of the Early Jurassic Bromley batholith. The quartz diorite is fractured, faulted, and intruded by a few felsic and mafic dykes. Epidote is the most common alteration mineral. Minor hematite occurs along fractures and faults.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *4373
GSC MAP 569A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358; 91-2, pp. 87-107

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