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File Created: 13-May-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  23-May-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name SNOWFIELD COPPER, COPPER 1-25, WINDY COPPER Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J093
Status Showing NTS Map 092J14W
Latitude 050º 56' 24'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 27' 43'' Northing 5643254
Easting 467544
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Snowfield Copper occurrence is located on a high plateau, near a snowfield, between Salal and Thunder creeks.

The area is underlain mainly by intrusive rocks of the Lord Pluton, an Early Tertiary intrusive complex of the Coast Plutonic Complex. Locally, Pleistocene volcanic rocks of the Garibaldi Group overlie the pluton. The dominant rock types include quartz monzonite, biotite granodiorite and quartz diorite with minor amounts of gabbro, hornblendite and intrusive breccia. Dykes of aplite, andesite, feldspar porphyry and gabbro also cut older intrusive rocks.

Locally, copper mineralization is hosted by granodioritic intrusive rocks and exposed along the margins of a snowfield.

In 2010, a grab sample (187183) assayed 0.687 per cent copper and 14.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 32065).

During 2005 through 2012, programs of prospecting, geochemical sampling, trenching and an induced polarization survey were completed on the area as the Copper 1-25 claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 28271, 29904, 30730, 30991, 31388, *32065, 33319
EMPR GEM 1970-223; 1971-311; 1972-282
GSC OF 482
GSC SUM RPT 1928, p. 92

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