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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Nov-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name JM, HI, GOLD WEATHER Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 092H050
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08E
Latitude 049º 28' 40'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 08' 59'' Northing 5484475
Easting 706462
Commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The JM showing is situated atop a ridge separating Bearpaw Lake to the west from the valley of McNulty Creek to the east, 14 kilometres north-northwest of Hedley.

The showing occurs in a roof pendant of Upper Triassic Nicola Group volcanics within the Early Jurassic Bromley batholith. The pendant trends northeast for 5 kilometres with widths of up to 2.5 kilometres, and is comprised of thinly-bedded andesite ash tuffs and massive to thickly-bedded andesite crystal lithic tuffs (Whistle Creek Formation?).

A 1 to 2-metre wide fracture zone strikes west for 200 metres, cutting biotite hornfelsed tuffs, just southwest of the contact with pink, medium-grained biotite granodiorite of the Bromley batholith. This northwest trending intrusive-volcanic contact zone is generally enriched in sulphides. The fracture zone in particular contains abundant disseminated pyrrhotite and pyrite, minor disseminated chalcopyrite and traces of arsenopyrite and bornite. Samples taken from the zone assayed trace to 0.62 gram per tonne gold and 0.7 to 2.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14289, page 6).

In this generally vicinity, within the northern part of the roof pendant, fine-grained andesite is reported to be mineralized with minor disseminated and stringer pyrite and magnetite, local disseminated chalcopyrite and occasional molybdenite along fractures.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1967-216; 1968-219
EMPR ASS RPT 1225, 1615, 1617, 1619, 4421, 12059, *14289, *15869
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 101-105; 1986, pp. 65-79; 1987, pp. 59-80
EMPR GEM 1970-393; 1973-137
GSC MAP 568A; 888A; 889A; 41-1989
GSC OF 2167, pp. 59-80
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358; 91-2, pp. 87-107
EMPR PFD 650170, 671391

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