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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  18-Jan-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name WILMAC Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H037
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07E
Latitude 049º 22' 32'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 40' 47'' Northing 5471795
Easting 668424
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Wilmac showing is 1.5 kilometres northwest of Twelve Mile (Corral) Creek, 6.0 kilometres west-northwest of the creek's confluence with Whipsaw Creek and 15 kilometres southwest of Princeton.

A mass of hornblende pyroxenite intrudes a sequence of mafic flows, pyroclastic breccias, tuffs and argillaceous rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group in the headwaters of Twelve Mile Creek. This ultramafic stock is possibly related to the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex. The body outcrops discontinuously over a width of 200 metres, and is comprised of four northwest-trending lenticular pods averaging 12 metres in thickness.

Small lenses of magnetite and narrow pegmatitic veins of hornblendite, with interstitial plagioclase (epidote-altered) and apatite, are associated with areas of coarse-grained, black hornblendite in the intrusion. Disseminated chalcopyrite and pyrite occur in the mafic pegmatites and in the sheared margins of the pods.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 1852
EMPR EXPL *1988, pp. B71-B81
EMPR GEM 1969-283,354
EMPR P 1992-6
GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243, p. 114
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)
EMPR PFD 650170, 812369, 21798

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