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File Created: 01-Sep-1998 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  02-Sep-1998 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name CORNWALL CREEK Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I074
Status Showing NTS Map 092I11W
Latitude 050º 43' 43'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 20' 54'' Northing 5620947
Easting 616568
Commodities Copper Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

Chalcopyrite-bearing sodic rhyolite porphyry of Tertiary? age forms one large outcrop in Cornwall Creek. Chalcopyrite and pyrite are evenly disseminated throughout the rock.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, pp. 89-95; 1981, pp. 270,271; 1996, pp. 117-123
EMPR GEOLOGY *1977-1981, pp. 91-97
EMPR MAP 30
EMPR OF 1999-2
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 262
GSC OF 165; 866; 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 69-23; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 81-1A, pp. 185-189, 217-221; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol.15, No.1 (January 1978), pp. 99-116
Grette, J.F. (1978): Cache Creek and Nicola Groups near Ashcroft, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 841844

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