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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-May-1991 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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Name RM Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092J016
Status Showing NTS Map 092J02W
Latitude 050º 09' 02'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 57' 55'' Northing 5555371
Easting 502481
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The RM property is located adjacent to Green Lake near the village of Whistler on Highway 99. Adjacent to the highway, outcrops of pyritic metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group are preserved as a roof pendant within granodiorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The Gambier rocks consists of andesitic tuff, siltstone and shale, regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

Mineralization consists of pyrite as disseminations and fracture fillings with minor amounts of chalcopyrite. Hydrothermal alteration of the Gambier rocks is dominantly sericitic and siliceous, overprinting an earlier propylitic assemblage of chlorite and epidote.

A 60-centimetre chip sample taken across a chalcopyrite-rich zone contained 1.5 per cent copper (Assessment Report 3947).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3274, *3947
EMPR GEM 1971-306; 1972-279
EMPR PF (Report by C.M. Armstrong, 1971; Prospectus, Battlecreek Mines Limited)
GSC OF 482
EMPR PFD 11658, 11659

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