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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name WP-CATI, BILL, BRUCE Mining Division Nicola, Osoyoos, Similkameen
BCGS Map 082E081
Status Showing NTS Map 082E13W
Latitude 049º 51' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 58' 34'' Northing 5527128
Easting 286101
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L : PORPHYRY
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The WP-Cati showing is located 1 kilometre west of the Brenda mine (092HNE047) tailings pond, approximately 19 kilometres northwest of Peachland.

The showing consists of copper (chalcopyrite?) mineralization exposed in outcrops of a porphyritic quartz diorite of the Early Jurassic Pennask Batholith, locally known as the Brenda stock. The mineralization is believed to be hosted by quartz veins. Trachyte dikes and post-mineralization lamprophyre cut across the property.

During the exploration boom of the late 1960s this showing was held by Buttle Lake Mining Ltd. and Trojan Consolidated Mines Ltd. In 1967 they carried out a limited induced polarization survey on an area about 1 kilometre to the north of the WP-CATI showing. Weak anomalies were identified, which were subsequently drilled later that year. The results of the drilling are not on record.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1966-180; *1967-Fig. 22
EMPR ASS RPT 932
EMPR OF 1994-8
EMPR RGS 29
GSC MAP 538A; 15-1961; 1701A; 1712A; 1713A; 1714A; 1736A;
7686G; 8522G
GSC OF 409; 637; 736; 1969
CIM Special Volume 15, pp. 186-194
Meldrum, D. (2017-08-01): 43-101 Technical Report on the New Brenda Property
EMPR PFD 766, 780

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