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File Created: 12-Jan-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name WHIP 1, WHIP Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H027
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07W
Latitude 049º 16' 44'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 47' 27'' Northing 5460807
Easting 660674
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Whip 1 showing is located on Corral (Forty-one Mile) Creek, 1.3 kilometres northwest of the creek's confluence with Whipsaw Creek, and 28 kilometres southwest of Princeton.

The showing is hosted in medium to coarse-grained, variably gneissic, biotite quartz diorite of the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Eagle Plutonic Complex, about 2.5 kilometres west of metamorphosed volcanics of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

A quartz vein containing galena, sphalerite and pyrite is exposed over a length of 1 metre in the bank of Corral Creek. The vein strikes 020 degrees. A high-grade section of mineralization, 17 centimetres thick, occurs along the footwall of the vein. The wallrocks are silicified up to 30 centimetres from the vein. Minor fine-grained galena, sphalerite and pyrite accompanies this silicification. A sample assayed 7.5 grams per tonne gold, 374 grams per tonne silver, 0.694 per cent copper, 19.3 per cent lead and 11.4 per cent zinc over a width of 13 centimetres (Assessment Report 8005, page 5).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *8005, 9129
GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
EMPR PFD 820961, 820982

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