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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Jun-2007 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI 092J2 Cu2
Name FITZSIMMONS Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092J016
Status Showing NTS Map 092J02W
Latitude 050º 07' 11'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 55' 59'' Northing 5551944
Easting 504786
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types K02 : Pb-Zn skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier
Capsule Geology

The Fitzsimmons property, first staked in 1901, occurs a few kilometres south of Green Lake on the Squamish-Pemberton Highway. The area is underlain by rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group preserved as a roof pendant within plutonic rocks of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The dominant lithology at the occurrence is limestone, intruded by porphyry dykes of unknown age or affinity.

Mineralization consists a chalcopyrite-rich zone within sheared and fractured limestone and a sphalerite-rich zone associated with epidote-quartz skarn.

One sample yielded 12.34 grams per tonne gold, 13.71 grams per tonne silver, 1.2 per cent copper and 12.1 per cent zinc (Starr, 1926 (Property File)).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1913-424; 1919-293; 1928-387; 1963-96
EMPR PF (Starr, C.C. (1926): Report of Examination of Fitzsimmons
Property Workings and Assays, Fitzsimmons Property (1"=100'),
1926)
GSC OF 482
GSC P 73-17
GSC SUM RPT 1917B-20
EMPR PFD 11653, 11654, 600190

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