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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Jan-1989 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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NMI 093B1 Ni1
Name NI Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093B010
Status Showing NTS Map 093B01E
Latitude 052º 05' 56'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 02' 59'' Northing 5772463
Easting 565093
Commodities Nickel, Chromium Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by poorly exposed rocks of the Mississ- ippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group which, in this region, consists mainly of mafic metavolcanic rocks, argillaceous metasediments and ultramafic bodies, now sheared and altered. To the southeast, serp- entinized peridotite is exposed, the trend of these exposures suggests that the ultramafic body continues to the northwest under the NI showing.

Mineralization consists of minute grains of millerite within a west-trending breccia zone in which the rocks have been almost completely replaced by ankeritic carbonate. This zone, up to 130 metres wide, is cut by narrow veinlets of chalcedonic quartz containing small flakes of mariposite in some areas.

A selected grab sample in 1956 assayed 0.23 per cent nickel and 0.27 percent chromium (Annual Report 1956-34).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1956-34
GSC MAP 12-1959; 1424A
EMR MP RESFILE MR-NI-301.00 (BC)

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