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File Created: 21-Nov-1986 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  17-Aug-1990 by Robert G. Gaba (RGG)

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NMI
Name PORPHYRY, WARNER 4 Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092O005
Status Showing NTS Map 092O03E
Latitude 051º 02' 02'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 11' 38'' Northing 5653611
Easting 486405
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The "Porphyry" porphyry copper showing, 4.3 kilometres south of Mount Warner, is within feldspar-hornblende porphyry and adjacent andesite agglomerates of the Upper Cretaceous Powell Creek Formation. These rocks are approximately one kilometre north of the contact with Upper Cretaceous plutonic rocks of the Coast Plutonic Complex.

Mineralization consists of disseminated chalcopyrite, massive chalcopyrite veins, up to 2 centimetres thick and quartz-epidiote- magnetite-chalcopyrite veins. Mineralized porphyry is slightly sericitic and silicic, and adjacent andesite agglomerate is silicic and chloritic. A grab sample of malachite stained quartz veins and slickensided rocks assayed 13.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.057 gram per tonne gold, 0.76 per cent copper and 0.02 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 17358, page 24).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 157-169
EMPR EXPL 1986-C285-286; 1988-C133
EMPR ASS RPT 14936, *17358
EMPR OF 1987-3
GSC MAP 29-1963
GSC OF 534; 2207

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