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File Created: 27-Mar-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  29-Apr-1991 by Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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NMI
Name CALCO Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I045
Status Showing NTS Map 092I06E
Latitude 050º 28' 10'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 03' 32'' Northing 5592628
Easting 637749
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Calco showing is located in outcrop 2.4 kilometres southwest of Quiltanton Lake. The exact location is somewhat uncertain.

The area is underlain by Early Jurassic-Late Triassic Guichon Creek batholith Bethsaida phase granodiorites. Weak (disseminated?) chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization occurs within weak sericite alteration.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1906-175; 1956-45; 1957-27; *1966-158
EMPR ASS RPT 145
EMPR GEM *1970-350
EMPR MAP *30
EMPR PF (Geology and claim location maps)
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 262
GSC P 46-8; 47-10
CIM Spec. Vol. 15 (1976), pp. 85-104
Northcote, K.E. (1968): Geology and Geochronology of the Guichon Creek Batholith, British Columbia, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, The University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 10880, 10881, 10882, 896389

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