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File Created: 22-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  28-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I16 Zn2
Name BIG OLIVER Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I099
Status Showing NTS Map 103I16E
Latitude 054º 54' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 13' 06'' Northing 6085767
Easting 550105
Commodities Zinc, Copper, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Bowser Lake
Capsule Geology

A shear zone, striking 055 degrees and dipping 40 degrees southeast, cuts sandstone of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group. The sandstone is overlain by conglomerate and argillite. The shear zone contains quartz and pyrite over a 15 centimetre width. Assays revealed trace gold. Fifteen metres to the east is a quartz vein sparsely mineralized with sphalerite and chalcopyrite over 45 centimetres.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1929-154
EMPR MAP 8; 69-1
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329
GSC P 36-17

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