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File Created: 09-Feb-2006 by Laura deGroot (LDG)
Last Edit:  09-Feb-2006 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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NMI
Name SHE-397 Mining Division Clinton
BCGS Map 092P088
Status Showing NTS Map 092P15E
Latitude 051º 48' 02'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 31' 00'' Northing 5741779
Easting 671222
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The SHE-397 occurrence is located on the slopes northeast of Canimred Creek, 6 kilometres west-southwest of Corsica Lake. It is hosted by magnetite-biotite-altered diorite along the south margin of the Raft Batholith, near its contact with volcaniclastic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. The mineralization, which was discovered during regional mapping by the BC Geological Survey in 2001, comprises narrow, sheeted chlorite-sulphide veinlets that contain pyrite and traces of chalcopyrite. A grab sample that included this sheeted vein material returned 0.06 per cent copper and 0.235 grams per tonne silver (EMPR Fieldwork 2001, p. 83-108, sample 01SHE-397).

The host rocks of the SHE-397 showing are part of an undated unit of mainly hornblende quartz monzodiorite, quartz diorite and diorite that makes up the west end of the Raft Batholith (EMPR Fieldwork 2005, p. 163-184). This part of the batholith also hosts disseminated pyrite-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-molybdenum mineralization at the Hood showing (MINFILE 092P 107), 1.5 kilometres to the north. The main part of the batholith to the east comprises biotite monzogranite to granodiorite of late Early Cretaceous age, which hosts several porphyry molybdenum occurrences (EMPR Open File 2002-15).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 2001, p. 83-108*; 2005, p. 163-184
EMPR OF 2005-15; 2006-8

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