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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  07-Jun-2016 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name FIR RIDGE, ROSE LAKE Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093A022
Status Showing NTS Map 093A05W
Latitude 052º 15' 44'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 45' 42'' Northing 5790926
Easting 584513
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Fir Ridge (Rose Lake) showing is located on a small ridge north of Rose Lake.

The area occurs at the boundary of the Cache Creek and Quesnellia terranes and is underlain by the Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group. It is likely that in the area of the showing the rocks are Permian (based on the presence of fusiu-linid foraminifera found in similar lithologies to the south). The contact between the Cache Creek Group and Quesnellia is probably a fault, although nowhere is this contact exposed in the map sheet.

Locally, the area is underlain by chert, argillite, greenstone and limestone. Chalcopyrite mineralization is reported to occur within limestone. Malachite mineralization is also reported in a small outcrop 150 metres to the north.

During 1969 through 1971, Grandeur Resources completed programs of prospecting, soil sampling and a ground magnetometer survey on the area as the Fir Ridge claims, Rose Lake property. In 2010, the area was prospected and geologically mapped as the Onucki Copper claim.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2216, 3129, 32275
EMPR GEM 1971-132
EMPR PF (Claim Map, 1970)
GSC MAP 1424A
EMPR PFD 13933, 906430

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