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MINFILE No  082FNE074
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Jan-2000 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name BRONCO Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F060
Status Showing NTS Map 082F09E
Latitude 049º 34' 12'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 11' 40'' Northing 5491135
Easting 558245
Commodities Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Bronco is underlain by micaceous quartzite of the Middle Proterozoic Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) cut by numerous sills of the Middle Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions and pegmatite. Coarse grained galena and sphalerite is associated with quartz in a fractured and silicified quartzite.

Bibliography
EM EXPL 1999-40-52
EMPR ASS RPT 8466
EMPR PFD 841759, 827881
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