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MINFILE No  082LNW071
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-May-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name MARA COPPER, MARA 2 Mining Division Kamloops, Vernon
BCGS Map 082L065
Status Showing NTS Map 082L11E
Latitude 050º 39' 09'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 03' 11'' Northing 5613194
Easting 354871
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Mara Copper showing is located near the fault contact between the Proterozoic and/or Paleozoic Shuswap assemblage and the lower Paleozoic Tsalkom Formation (Mount Ida Group). Several quartz veins appear to cut argillite and slate of the Tsalkom Formation with Shuswap assemblage gneiss outcrops nearby. A trace of copper has been reported (chalcopyrite is the inferred mineralization).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3394
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 49-54
EMPR OF 1990-30
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet; *Sketch map, 1954)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 217)
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 4436
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