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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  16-Feb-2001 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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NMI
Name TEEPEE Mining Division Clinton
BCGS Map 092P047
Status Showing NTS Map 092P07E
Latitude 051º 27' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 38' 54'' Northing 5702924
Easting 663390
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Teepee showing is located 1600 metres south of the east end of Whitley Lake, and about 5 kilometres southeast of Bridge Lake. The area is approximately 90 kilometres north of Kamloops. A good secondary road leads to within 500 metres of the showing.

The showing consists of molybdenite-chalcopyrite mineralization accompanied by strong K-feldspar alteration in a northwest striking fault zone cutting granodiorite of the Triassic-Jurassic Thuya batholith (Assessment Report 3601). The showing is located immediately to the south of the contact between the batholith and Upper Triassic Nicola Group volcanic rocks. Nicola volcanic rocks are mainly augite andesite flows and breccias and tuff (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 363).

The Teepee claims were staked by T. Gordon of Little Fort and the showing area trenched by Mr. Gordon in 1970. A short adit, now caved, was driven into the cliffside several years prior to this. Royal Canadian Ventures optioned the property, and in 1972 (Assessment Report 3601) undertook soil geochemical surveys (800 samples analysed for copper and molybdenum), magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys (48 kilometres).

Bibliography
GSC MEM 363
GSC MAP 1278A
EMPR FIELDWORK 2000, pp.1-30
EMPR ASS RPT *3601
EMPR PF (Claim map, 1971)

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