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MINFILE No 082LNW018

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	28-Jun-1995	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	COPPER CUP, JEN, COPPER NUGGET	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	082L084
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L14W
Latitude	050º 52' 47''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 19' 54''	Northing	5639040
		Easting	335974
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Kootenay

Capsule Geology

Surface and underground work (pits, trenches, tunnels) were completed between 1928 and 1930 on the Copper Cup, Copper Chief (082LNW019) and Vimy (082LNW020) showings. The Copper Chief adjoined the Copper Cup to the east, and the Vimy adjoined the Copper Cup to the southeast.

At the Copper Cup showing, northwest trending silicified zones traverse west striking, north dipping (35 degrees) chlorite schist of the Devonian and/or older? Woolford Creek unit of the Eagle Bay assemblage. These zones contain small bodies of chalcopyrite and pyrite associated with quartz seams and cut the hostrock obliquely. Some disseminated mineralization also occurs.

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1928-C210,C211; 1929-C217; 1930-A183

EMPR ASS RPT 2415, 3036, 3429, *13378, 15902

EMPR GEM 1971-434,435; 1972-82

EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)

GSC MAP 1059A

GSC MEM 296, p. 143

GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 157)

GSC P 48-4; 74-1A, pp. 25-30; 86-1A, pp. 81-88; 89-1E, pp. 51-60

CJES Vol.21 (Oct.1984), pp. 1171-1193

EMPR PFD 823779, 823780, 823781, 823782, 825381