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File Created: 12-Oct-2012 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)
Last Edit:  09-May-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name ORCA Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I053
Status Showing NTS Map 104I11W
Latitude 058º 31' 08'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 26' 05'' Northing 6486564
Easting 474677
Commodities Nickel, Chromium Deposit Types M05 : Alaskan-type Pt+/-Os+/-Rh+/-Ir
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Orca property is located approximately 35 kilometres east of Dease Lake.

The property covers 65 square kilometres centred on a 15 kilometre long package of upper Mississippian to Permian ultramafic rocks of the Cache Creek Complex.

The mineralized zone of disseminated awaruite, a naturally occurring nickel-iron alloy, is exposed along the top and northeast flank of a northwest-trending ridge. The mineralization begins on the flank at an elevation of 1300 metres and extends more than 700 metres to the summit, which reaches 2020 metres in elevation. The awaruite mineralization at Orca is hosted in fine grained, serpentinized peridotite, with minor dikes or pods of dunite.

First Point Minerals Corp. reported an average assay from 118 rock samples of 0.113 per cent nickel, 5.4 per cent iron and 0.2 per cent chromium. The surface samples range in value from 0.06 per cent to 0.21 per cent nickel and contain common to abundant, fine to coarse grains of disseminated awaruite ranging in size from 0.05 to 0.3 millimetres (Press Release - First Point Minerals Corp., October 11, 2012).

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27
PR REL First Point Minerals Corp. Oct.11, 2012

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