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File Created: 29-May-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  29-May-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name TAS 2, TAS 1-2 Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H028
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08W
Latitude 049º 17' 33'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 29' 14'' Northing 5463010
Easting 682704
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Tas 2 occurrence is located in the southwestern head waters of Wolfe Creek, at an elevation of approximately 1455 metres.

The area is underlain by the eastern facies of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group consisting of mafic augite and hornblende porphyritic pyroclastics and flows. These have been intruded by dioritic rocks of the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Copper Mountain Stock.

Locally, a 0.3 metre wide rusty and manganese stained fracture zone hosts up to 5 per cent pyrite with traces of chalcopyrite and malachite. In 1994, a grab sample (12) assayed 0.9 per cent copper and 11.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 23649).

Another showing, located approximately 600 metres the north- north west, consists of epidote, potassium feldspar, pyrite, malachite and chalcopyrite occurring along fractures and as disseminations in outcrop over an area of approximately 3 square metres. In 1996, a grab sample (I-218) assayed 2.2 grams per tonne silver and 0.305 per cent copper (Assessment Report 25102).

In 1972, Phelps Dodge completed a program of geological mapping, soil sampling and ground magnetometer and induced polarization surveys on the area as the Tas and Tat claims. During 1991 through 1994, G.F. Crooker completed programs of silt sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Tas 1-2 claims. In 1996, Moreleigh Minerals completed a program of geological mapping, soil and rock sampling and ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys. In 2009 through 2011, Supreme Resources completed programs of geochemical sampling and a 19.5 kilometre induced polarization survey.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 4380, 4526, 4806, 22427, *23649, *25102, 31363, 33062
EMPR GEM 1973-133,134
GSC MAP 569A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

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