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File Created: 29-Mar-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  12-Apr-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name CROSS 6, CROSS 5-7, LYNX Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092P059
Status Showing NTS Map 092P09W
Latitude 051º 30' 22'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 18' 20'' Northing 5709551
Easting 686988
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Cross 6 showing is located on a northern tributary of Nehalliston Creek, approximately 12 kilometres northwest of Little Fort.

The area is underlain by the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Dum Lake complex is comprised of ultramafic and mafic plutonic rocks that could be part of an Alaskan-type intrusive body. The mafic portions of the Dum Lake complex are dominated by coarse- to medium-grained gabbro and diorite but locally includes clinopyroxenite, monzogabbro, microdiorite and tonalite. The ultramafic portion of the Dum Lake complex includes an assemblage of variably serpentinized, locally talc- and carbonate-altered rocks consisting of clinopyroxenite, wehrlite and dunite. The Dum Lake complex is truncated by granodioritic rocks of the Triassic to Jurassic Thuya batholith on its southeast side. On its eastward side, Dum Lake complex diorites and gabbros are in contact with massive andesites of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group and argillites, limestones and cherts of the late Paleozoic Harper Ranch Group.

Two types of mineralization occur at the showing: 1.) quartz vein breccias associated with shears in volcanic rocks mineralized with pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite, and 2.) skarn mineralization occurs in limy siltstones or dirty limestones as massive sulphide lenses up to 1.0 metre, in an 8 to 10 metre garnetite zone. The sulphides consisted mainly of pyrrhotite with lesser pyrite and chalcopyrite.

In 1999, Mr. George Wolanski discovered copper mineralized float and subcrop in the area of the Cross 6 claim. The same year, a trench dug by backhoe exposed copper- bearing skarn mineralization. In the fall of 2003, New Cantech Ventures Inc. optioned the property from Mr. Wolanski. In November, 2003, soil and rock sampling and a VLF-EM survey were carried out over a grid in the vicinity around the 'discovery' trench. This work resulted in a multi- element soil anomaly and a strong VLF-EM anomaly, over 500 metres long, oriented roughly northwest-southeast. In 2004, trenching and diamond drilling, totalling 841.24 metres, were performed, targeting the previous year's VLF-EM anomaly. In 2009, the showing was acquired by Newmac Resources Inc. under the Lynx property. A program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling was completed that year.

In 1999, select grab samples of skarn mineralization returned 13.13 per cent copper, 238 grams per tonne silver and anomalous concentrations of cobalt and palladium (Assessment Report 27364)

In 2004, a 2.0 metre chip sample, of quartz vein breccia, returned 302 grams per tonne gold, 280 parts per million lead and 1136 parts per million zinc (Assessment Report 27528). The best intercept from drilling, during the same year, returned 68.0 grams per tonne gold and 1570 parts per million copper over 0.90 metres of skarn related mineralization (Assessment Report 27528).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 27364, 27528, 31497
EMPR FIELDWORK 2000, pp. 1-30
EMPR PFD 673289, 521703

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