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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 092J3 Cu1
Name ELK, CALLANDER, BLUEGROUSE Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092J015
Status Showing NTS Map 092J03E
Latitude 050º 07' 24'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 01' 45'' Northing 5552344
Easting 497915
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Elk copper showing is located a few kilometres southwest of Alta Lake near the township of Whistler and may be accessed from logging roads in the area.

The property occurs within steep terrane of the Pacific Ranges and is underlain mainly by granodiorite and quartz diorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex and Lower Cretaceous metavolcanic rocks of the Gambier Group. The supracrustal rocks have been strongly sheared and foliated, with the dominant foliation trending to the northwest.

Mineralization comprises chalcopyrite, pyrite and minor molybdenite within host metavolcanic rocks and massive to strongly foliated intrusive rocks. The style of mineralization appears to be porphyry-type with modification resulting from later deformation.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1918-295; 1968-74
EMPR ASS RPT 756, 1562, 2432, *12801
EMPR GEM 1969-191; 1970-231
EMPR PF (*Report by W. Osborne, 1969)
GSC OF 482
GSC P 75-1A, pp. 37-40
EMPR PFD 11695, 11724, 881329

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