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MINFILE No 092HSE117

File Created:	20-Jan-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	23-Apr-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	POLARIS 16	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H047
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H07W
Latitude	049º 24' 38''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 47' 23''	Northing	5475446
		Easting	660326
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au M05 : Alaskan-type Pt+/-Os+/-Rh+/-Ir
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel


Capsule Geology	The Polaris 16 showing lies along the northwest bank of Arrastra Creek, 20.5 kilometres west-southwest of Princeton. Chalcopyrite is disseminated in hornblende pyroxenite in the south end of the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex. The showing was drilled by Anaconda American Brass Ltd. in 1970.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1968-204,205

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294

EMPR OF 1988-25

EMPR P 1992-6

GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989

GSC MEM 243

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

CJES Vol. 6, pp. 399-425 (1969); Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

Findlay, D.C. (1963): Petrology of the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, Yale District, British Columbia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Queen's University, 415 pages.

EMPR PFD 650170, 392