MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092HSE021

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	11-Dec-1991	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	FALUM (L.416S), VOIGT'S CAMP	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H038
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H08W
Latitude	049º 20' 17''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 28' 16''	Northing	5468113
		Easting	683705
Commodities	Copper, Gold	Deposit Types	L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Falum showing is situated 2.3 kilometres east of Wolfe Creek and 13.5 kilometres south-southeast of Princeton.

This showing is hosted in diorite of the Early Jurassic Voigt stock (Copper Mountain Intrusions).

The copper mineralization at this occurrence is similar to that of the Azurite showing (092HSE022), 1600 metres to the west, consisting of chalcopyrite in magnetite-epidote veinlets. Hematite, pyrite and minor bornite associated with albite and hornblende are also reported. A selected grab sample assayed 2.94 per cent copper and 2.7 grams per tonne gold (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 171, page 43).

This showing was explored by three shafts and several trenches some time between 1906 and 1934. Sinmax Mines Ltd. carried out soil, magnetometer and geological surveys immediately south and east of the showing between 1968 and 1970.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1906-255; 1908-127; 1967-180; 1968-207

EMPR ASS RPT 1785, 2892

EMPR BULL *59, p. 78

GSC BULL 239, pp. 140,141

GSC MAP 300A; 569A; 888A; 889A; 1386A; 41-1989

GSC MEM *171, p. 43; 243, p. 88

GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358

GSC RPT 986 (1908)

GSC SUM RPT 1906, pp. 51,52

CIM BULL Vol. 44, No. 469, pp. 317-324 (1951); Vol. 61, No. 673, pp. 633-636 (1968)

CIM Special Volume 15, pp. 368-375 (1976)

CIM Trans. Vol. 18, pp. 192-201 (1915)

CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

Montgomery, J.H. (1967): Petrology, Structure and Origin of the Copper Mountain Intrusions near Princeton, British Columbia; unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia

EMPR PFD 811749