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MINFILE No 082LNW020

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	VIMY, JEN, COPPER NUGGET	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	082L084
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L14W
Latitude	050º 52' 50''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 19' 19''	Northing	5639111
		Easting	336661
Commodities	Copper, Silver, Gold	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 Vimy showing, 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 which cut the hostrock obliquely.

A sample taken from some of the best ore assayed 0.34 gram per tonne gold, 13.7 grams per tonne silver and 14.4 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1928, page C211).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1928-C211 EMPR ASS RPT 2415, 3036, 3429, *13378, 15902 EMPR GEM 1971-434,435; 1972-81 EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet) GSC MAP 1059A GSC MEM 296, p. 150 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