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File Created: 31-Mar-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  29-Jun-2021 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name PI Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I044
Status Showing NTS Map 092I06E
Latitude 050º 28' 07'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 13' 49'' Northing 5592231
Easting 625590
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The PI occurrence is located approximately 27 kilometres south of Ashcroft. The exact location is uncertain.

The area straddles the contact between the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Guichon Creek Batholith Border phase quartz diorites and Middle and Upper Cretaceous Spences Bridge Group volcanics.

Locally, hematite with minor chalcopyrite occurs in a shear zone within quartz diorites.

Work History

In 1970, Tower Mines Ltd. completed a 16.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the PI claim.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2244
EMPR BULL 56; 62
EMPR GEM 1970-347
EMPR MAP *30
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Northcote, K.E. (1968): Geology and Geochronology of the Guichon Creek Batholith, British Columbia, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, The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

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