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

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Name OREGON JACK Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I064
Status Showing NTS Map 092I11W
Latitude 050º 38' 37'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 23' 41'' Northing 5611424
Easting 613500
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

An isolated knob, 1 kilometre north of Oregon Jack Creek, rises about 25 metres above the surroundings. It consists of a massive white to light brown coloured rock made up primarily of siderite with lesser amounts of quartz. Small areas carry 1 to 3 per cent chalcopyrite which has been partially altered to malachite which produces irregular blue bands throughout the rock. The siderite-quartz body is surrounded by altered limestone that is part of a melange unit in the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex. The siderite-quartz body is approximately circular in plan.

Copper mineralization is also found about 1250 metres south-southwest of the siderite-quartz body. Minor malachite, bornite and chalcopyrite occurs as fine-grained disseminations along multiple fracture surfaces in limonitic argillite and fine-grained volcaniclastics. One sample yielded a high of 0.1 per cent copper and 25.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13322).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *13322
EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, pp. 89-95; 1981, pp. 270,271; 1996, pp. 117-123
EMPR GEOLOGY *1977-1981, pp. 91-97
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 9518, 811586, 841844

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