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File Created: 08-Feb-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  15-Feb-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name WATER 3, WATERLOO Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J087
Status Showing NTS Map 092J15W
Latitude 050º 48' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 44' 42'' Northing 5628048
Easting 517969
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

The Water 3 occurrence is located north of Fergusson Creek, at an elevation of 2155 metres and approximately 4 kilometres east of Kingdom Lake.

The area is underlain by north- trending and steeply dipping andesites, cherts and quartzites of the Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group), faulted against diorite and quartz diorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton. All rocks are hornfelsed and the volcanics are sheared and chloritized, with pronounced oxidation. Other hydrothermal alteration products in the area include epidote, calcite and chalcedony.

Locally, a granodiorite or quartz diorite hosts a 50 centimetre wide pegmatitic quartz vein mineralized with pyrite, pyrrhotite, galena and chalcopyrite. Gangue minerals are reported to include actinolite and hornblende.

In 1991, a select grab sample (648R) assayed 0.11 gram per tonne gold, 33.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.160 per cent copper, 0.211 per cent lead and 0.140 per cent antimony (Assessment Report 22119).

In 1984, Newmont Exploration, on behalf of X-Calibre Resources, completed a program of geochemical sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Waterloo 1-2 claims. In 1991, Cogema Canada Ltd. completed a program of rock and silt sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Water 1-4 claims. In 2013, BCT Mining Corp., on the behalf of Discovery Ventures Inc., completed a program of geological and structural mapping on the area as the Gold property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 13323, *22119, 33875
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, p. 35; 1985, pp. 303-310; 1986, pp. 23-29; 1987, pp. 93-130; 1988, pp. 105-152; 1989, pp. 45-72; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10
EMPR PF (Annual Reports, X-Cal Resources Ltd., 1986, 1989)
GSC MAP 430A; 431A
GSC MEM 130; 213
GSC OF 482

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