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File Created: 05-Jan-1994 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name W.P.L., JOSS MOUNTAIN Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L088
Status Showing NTS Map 082L16W
Latitude 050º 48' 31'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 25' 44'' Northing 5629515
Easting 399326
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types E08 : Carbonate-hosted talc
O01 : Rare element pegmatite - LCT family
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The W.P.L. occurrence is situated near a marble-granitic gneiss contact where massive pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-arsenopyrite is hosted in a skarn zone. The massive mineralization is exposed on fault planes, while disseminated sulphides occur in schists and green garnetiferous zones; small veins cut these zones. Hostrocks belong to the Precambrian-Paleozoic(?) Shuswap Metamorphic Complex.

Rock samples taken from the mineralized zones analysed as high as 0.4 per cent copper, 1.85 grams per tonne gold and 5.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14805).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14805
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 658
EMPR PFD 823020

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