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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  08-Feb-2022 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI
Name FOR Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I066
Status Showing NTS Map 092I10W
Latitude 050º 36' 01'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 55' 47'' Northing 5607422
Easting 646509
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The For occurrence is located 4.5 kilometres west of Tunkwa Lake and 2 kilometres south of Guichon Creek.

The area is predominantly underlain by granodiorite of the Hybrid phase of the Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic Guichon Creek Batholith.

Locally, a small zone of chalcopyrite in a rusty quartz vein occurs in a creek bed between Forge and Guichon creeks. The vein pinches and swells over an exposed distance of 15 metres along an east-striking, 60-degree-south–dipping fault.

Work History

The occurrence has been previously trenched, probably in the 1930s and/or 1940s.

In 1969, Mastodon Highland-Bell Mines Ltd. completed a soil survey (189 samples) over the For claims and in 1970, Leitch Mines Limited conducted a geological and soil geochemical (689 samples) survey.

In 2017, an airborne magnetic survey was completed by Peter E. Walcott & Associates Limited over the area as part of the Getty property. The survey was composed of 697 line-kilometres of heliborne magnetics over two grid areas. Soil sampling was also completed on the Getty property; 504 soil samples were collected and assayed. Of these, 278 samples were collected within the Pod area, approximately 100 metres west of the For occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2142, 2184, 2774, *2836, 6830, 36843, 37314
EMPR BULL 56
EMPR GEM 1971-358
EMPR MAP 30
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 249
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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