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MINFILE No 092INW102

File Created:	02-Jun-1997	by	George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:	23-May-2007	by	Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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		NMI	092I12 Sb1
Name	WATKINSON	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	092I052
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092I12W
Latitude	050º 32' 04''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 45' 42''	Northing	5598788
		Easting	587759
Commodities	Antimony, Silver, Copper, Gold	Deposit Types	I09 : Stibnite veins and disseminations
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Methow, Bridge River

Capsule Geology

Dawson (1894) reported that 'stibnite occurs near Watkinson's, about 23 miles above Lytton, on the Fraser'. The vein is reported to be about 35 centimetres wide, with quartz and calcite. The stibnite yielded traces of gold and 74.9 grams per tonne silver. The locality is about 800 metres south of the intersection of Highway 12 and Cinquefoil Creek. Rocks in the vicinity are tightly folded sediments of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Relay Mountain Group cut by rusty granitic dikes. Abundant quartz-calcite veinlets were observed; pyrite occurs irregularly in the dikes. Tetrahedrite is reported from near this same locality (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 262, page 96).


Bibliography	EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271 GSC ANN RPT 1887, pp. 58T,79R; 1888-89, p. 60T; 1894, Vol. VII, pp. 343B,344B GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989 GSC MEM *262, p. 96 GSC OF 165; 866; 980 GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358