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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name PLANET NO. 1 (L.4102) Mining Division Kamloops, Nicola
BCGS Map 092I039
Status Showing NTS Map 092I08W
Latitude 050º 20' 28'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 23' 50'' Northing 5579798
Easting 685199
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The historic Enterprise camp is located on Mineral Hill within a north trending belt of Upper Triassic intermediate volcanics, volcaniclastics and sediments belonging to the Nicola Group. These greenstones consist of massive, chlorite-epidote altered andesite and basalt, augite porphyry, andesitic flow breccia and tuff, and minor interbedded argillite, conglomerate and limestone. Attitudes of tuff horizons and sedimentary bedding suggest that a north plunging axis of a syncline passes through Mineral Hill. Both west and north- east of Stump Lake, the Nicola Group volcanics are intruded by Lower Jurassic granitic batholiths; scattered granodiorite outcrops have been mapped in the vicinity of the camp. Secondary to the north- northeast trending Quichena and Stump Lake regional faults are numerous smaller faults which form a complex fracture pattern and appear to control alteration and mineralization. Andesitic rocks are bleached, pervasively silicified, pyritic and brecciated. Mineral- ization occurs in numerous quartz, and less commonly calcite veins which strike generally to the north and dip steeply east.

The Planet showing consists of the original shaft (30 metres deep) and several open cuts which expose a 20 to 45 centimetre wide quartz vein and several quartz stringers within altered greenstone. The vein strikes north and dips steeply to the east. Ore minerals include pyrite, chalcopyrite and grey sulphides (probably galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite or tetrahedrite).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1885-496; 1886-212; 1888-314
EMPR EXPL 1984-210
EMPR ASS RPT 5152, 5565, 13152
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 96,97
EMPR BULL 10, p. 107; 20, p. 25
EMPR GEM 1974-148; 1975-E87
EMPR PF (Report by J. Antal, 1969)
GSC OF *980
GSC MEM *249. p. 54
GSC MAP 886A; 887A
GSC SUM RPT 1919 Part B
EMR MP CORPFILE (Planet Mines and Reduction Co. of Nicola Ltd.;
Consolidated Nicola Goldfields Ltd.; Stump Mines Ltd.)
EMPR EXPL 1989-119-134
Gourlay, A.W. (2013-02-01): Independent Geological Report on the Stump Lake Au-Ag Property
Gourlay, A.W. (2013-09-13): Independent Geological Report on the Mineral Hill Property

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