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File Created: 31-Mar-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  11-Mar-1991 by Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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NMI 092I4 Ni1
Name KEEFERS Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092I003
Status Showing NTS Map 092I04E
Latitude 050º 00' 01'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 32' 51'' Northing 5539672
Easting 604094
Commodities Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Platinum, Palladium Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Methow, Bridge River
Capsule Geology

The Keefers showing is located in old opencuts north of the Nahatlatch River, 2.4 kilometres southwest of Keefers.

The area is underlain by Lower and Middle Jurassic Ladner Group metasediments comprising argillite, slate and phyllite. These occur in normal contact with a northwest trending belt of lower greenschist facies Permian(?) to Lower Cretaceous Bridge River Complex (Group) phyllites and schists.

The showings were staked by D. Pride in 1954 then optioned to Northwest Ventures in 1955. Opencutting, surface work and diamond drilling are reported. A representative sample sent to Sudbury is reported to have assayed 1.42 per cent copper, 2.24 per cent nickel, 0.15 per cent cobalt, 3.77 grams per tonne platinum and 0.79 gram per tonne palladium (National Mineral Inventory 92I/4 Ni1).

Bibliography
EM GEOFILE 2000-2; 2000-5
EMPR OF *1986-7, p. 21
EMR MP CORPFILE (Northwest Ventures Ltd.)
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; *42-1989
GSC MEM 262
GSC OF 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10

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