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MINFILE No  082GNW015
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name YANKEE GIRL, KIM Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G061
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12W
Latitude 049º 38' 07'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 53' 07'' Northing 5498677
Easting 580491
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Yankee Girl showing, Helikian Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) quartzites hosts a hornblende-diorite sill of the Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions. The sill hosts quartz veins and stringers carrying pyrite and chalcopyrite with minor galena and sphalerite. The major vein is 1 to 2 metres wide and strikes 330 degrees with 65 degree west dips.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1919-117; 1968-269
EMPR ASS RPT 1715, 2071, 2675
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, p. 9
EMPR GEM 1969-346; 1970-475; 1972-68
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM *76, p. 146; 207
GSC SUM RPT Part AII, p. 98
EMPR PFD 810671
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