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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Nov-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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Name HILLTOP, LUCKY STRIKE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M042
Status Prospect NTS Map 082M05E
Latitude 051º 29' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 38' 29'' Northing 5706884
Easting 316602
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain largely by Lower Cambrian metamorphic rocks of the Eagle Bay Formation in contact with the Cretaceous Baldy Batholith. Four distinct units include quartz-feldspar chlorite gneiss, sericite chlorite phyllite, limestone and green chlorite schist to massive greenstone. All units normally strike northeast and dip northwest at moderate angles. Major north trend- ing and minor northwest trending faults displace the units.

Copper mineralization, with accompanying silicification, pyritization and potassium feldspar alteration, occurs in the stratigraphically lower zone of the chlorite schist to greenstone unit, just east of its faulted contact with the intrusive. Chalco- pyrite, pyrite and lesser pyrolusite, pyrrhotite, bornite and covellite occur as disseminations and fracture fills in largely brecciated and sheared host rocks. Seven showings occur within a 650 by 250 metre area. A 2.4 metre chip sample of showing #1 assayed 0.72 per cent copper (Assessment Report 3430).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *3430, 5929, *6792
EMPR EXPL 1976-63; 1978-109
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, p. 90
EMPR GEM 1971-437-438; 1972-90
EMPR OF 1986-5; 2000-7
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 1997-12 by Denis Delisle)
GSC MAP 48-1963
GSC OF 637

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