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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-Jun-1998 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name AGATE, B Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I093
Status Showing NTS Map 092I14W
Latitude 050º 56' 47'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 25' 35'' Northing 5645042
Easting 610544
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

Copper and molybdenum mineralization occur in altered metasediments of the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex that have been intruded by porphyry dikes.

Work by Canada West Petroleums Ltd. in 1970 comprised rotary drilling in one hole totalling 152 metres on the Agate 13 claim. Work done by Pan Ocean Oil Ltd. in 1972 included a magnetometer survey over 11.4 line kilometres and a geochemical survey comprising 185 samples.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *5261
EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271; 1987, pp. 417-419
EMPR GEM *1970-325; 1972-233
EMPR OF 1988-30; 1990-23
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 262
GSC OF 165; 866; 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 69-23; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 81-1A, pp. 185-189, 217-221; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358; 89-1E
EMPR PFD 885330

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