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File Created: 25-Oct-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  07-Dec-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name FENWICK Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082J043
Status Showing NTS Map 082J05E
Latitude 050º 28' 58'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 32' 55'' Northing 5593317
Easting 602969
Commodities Lead, Copper Deposit Types I : VEIN, BRECCIA AND STOCKWORK
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Fenwick occurrence is located on a high ridge north of Fenwick Creek, approximately 8 kilometres northeast of its junction with the Palliser River.

The area is underlain by dolomitic carbonate rocks, limestone, slate, siltstone and argillite of the middle to upper Cambrian Ottertail and Chancellor formations.

Locally, banded, argillaceous dolomite; limy argillite and limestone host quartz-calcite veins with galena and lesser sphalerite-chalcopyrite mineralization.

In 1975, three samples (A-337, B-520 and B-521) of argillaceous dolomite hosting calcite veins with galena assayed 4.35, 5.40 and 6.65 per cent lead, respectively, while two samples (H-271 and H-277) of limy argillite with quartz veins hosting chalcopyrite yielded 1.17 and 0.92 per cent copper, respectively (Property File - Aquitaine Co. of Canada Ltd. [1976-02-02]: Report on Southeastern British Columbia Project 1975 for Aquitaine Company of Canada).

In 1975, Aquitaine Co. of Canada Ltd. completed a program of regional geochemical sampling, geological mapping and prospecting on the area.

Bibliography
EMPR PF (*Aquitaine Co. of Canada Ltd. [1976-02-02]: Report on Southeastern British Columbia Project 1975 for Aquitaine Company of Canada)
EMPR PFD 681120

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