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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 O'REILLY Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082M058
Status Showing NTS Map 082M09W
Latitude 051º 31' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 24' 34'' Northing 5709151
Easting 402222
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by a thick sequence of siliceous metasedimentary rocks consisting predominantly of quartz-mica schist, grey quartzite and micaceous quartzite with minor inter- beds of carbonate-graphite phyllite.

Mineralization occurs as sparse pockets of massive pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite within quartz blebs and as finely disseminated stratabound pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite within quartzites.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *6103, 11056, 15484
EMPR BULL 71, p. 28
EMPR EXPL 1976-68; 1978-110,111; 1982-120,121
EMPR MAP 25
GSC MAP 12-1964
GSC OF 637
GSC P 64-32
GCNL #51, 1980
EMPR PFD 860801

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