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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Jul-2021 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name POM POM, WRT 9 Mining Division Nicola
BCGS Map 092I047
Status Showing NTS Map 092I07E
Latitude 050º 25' 18'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 43' 41'' Northing 5587982
Easting 661387
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Pom Pom occurrence is situated near Quenville Creek, approximately 4 kilometres southeast of Logan Lake and 35 kilometres north of Merritt.

The area is underlain by grey-green and purple andesitic tuffs, flows and breccias of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group intruded by a microdiorite dike.

Locally, historical trenches are reported to expose chalcopyrite and bornite fracture-controlled mineralization in an epidote-, calcite- and hematite-altered dike.

In 1973, a sample assayed 0.17 per cent copper (Assessment Report 17337).

In 1988, a float sample with calcite veinlets and chalcocite-malachite mineralization yielded 1.755 per cent copper (Assessment Report 18048).

Work History

Historical trenches, of unknown age, are reported to have been developed on the occurrence.

In 1973, Newmont Mining Corp. staked the area as the Pom Pom claims and completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and ground magnetic and induced polarization survey on the claims.

During 1986 through 1988, Western Resources Technologies completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and geophysical (induced polarization, electromagnetic and magnetometer) surveys on the area as the WRT claims.

In 2015, Laurence Sookochoff carried out a structural analysis and a 4.5 line-kilometre ground magnetometer survey on part of the Bertha property, approximately 3.5 kilometres to the northwest.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 14959, 15060, *17337, *18048, 35735, 36058
EMPR EXPL 1986-C228; 1988-C111; 1989-119-134
EMPR GEM *1973-184
GSC MEM 249
GSC OF 980

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