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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Jul-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name TRIO Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M084
Status Showing NTS Map 082M14W
Latitude 051º 50' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 20' 04'' Northing 5746005
Easting 339185
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by the Proterozoic Shuswap Metamorphic Complex with granite to quartz monzonite intrusives.

The main showing is a 15 by 6 metre zone containing malachite, pyrite and chalcopyrite within quartz sericite schist.

About a kilometre south are several molybdenite showings within quartz veins in granite. One location contained silver, lead, zinc and molybdenite mineralization with a grab sample assaying 7.85 per cent copper, 0.03 per cent zinc, 85 grams per tonne silver, 0.03 grams per tonne gold and less than .001 per cent molybdenum.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *5125, 7127
EMPR EXPL 1975-E60
GSC MAP 48-1963
EMPR PFD 650028

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