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File Created: 12-Jun-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BX SOUTH Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I056
Status Showing NTS Map 092I10W
Latitude 050º 30' 05'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 55' 44'' Northing 5596429
Easting 646875
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The BX South occurrence is located approximately 4.2 kilometres east of the northern end of the Bethlehem Copper (MINFILE 092ISE001) pit, on the north side of small creek that flows south to Witches Brook.

The area is underlain by quartz diorite (Guichon variety) of the late Triassic-Middle Jurassic Guichon Creek Batholith which is cut in places by finer dike rocks correlated with the Witches Brook phase of the batholith.

Locally, a clastic shear zone between an altered diorite and quartz granodiorite hosts chalcopyrite, bornite and malachite mineralization.

In 2013, two rock samples assayed up to 0.274 gram per tonne gold, 33.6 grams per tonne silver and greater than 1 per cent copper (Assessment Report 34634).

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the BX (MINFILE 092INE042) occurrence to the north. In 1958, the Bob, Star, B.X. and Cow groups of claims were optioned by Noranda Exploration Company Limited and work consisted of a ground electromagnetic survey and geological mapping. Some bulldozer trenching was done on the showing on the B.X. claims and 8 kilometres of road was constructed; the options were dropped at the end of the summer. In 1965, an induced polarization survey (15 kilometres) was completed on the Cow claims on behalf of The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited. In 1967, Bethlehem Copper collected soil samples in the area, immediately south, as the Pay claims. In 1969, work done on behalf of Laura Mines Limited on the WJ claims, which covered the BX showing, consisted of 93 kilometres of line cutting, 1567 soil samples, 93 kilometres of ground magnetometer surveying, 43 kilometres of induced polarization surveying, geological mapping, four trenches, totalling 152 metres, and nine diamond- drill holes, totalling 853 metres. In 1982, Cominco completed an induced polarization survey on the area immediately to the east as the For claims.

In 2012, Blue River Resources completed a program of soil sampling, a 23.1 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and five diamond drill holes, totalling 1182.5 metres, on the area as the Highland North property. In 2013, the area was prospected as the BX South property and rock samples were collected. In 2016, a photo-geological lineament study and a 2.7 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey were completed.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 244, 246, 631, 1112, 2187, 2188, 10783, 33784, *34634, 36546
EMPR BULL 56
EMPR GEM 1969-268
EMPR MAP 30
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 249
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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