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MINFILE No  092P 019
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Jan-2001 by Janet M. Riddell (JMR)

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NMI
Name EMPIRE, BLUEBIRD Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092P070
Status Showing NTS Map 092P09E
Latitude 051º 39' 54'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 01' 58'' Northing 5727949
Easting 705197
Commodities Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain
Capsule Geology

The Empire showing is located about 2 kilometres north of the town of Clearwater. Pyrite, galena and sphalerite occur in quartz veins conforming to the strike and dip of schists of the Devonian to Permian Fennell Formation of the Slide Mountain Group.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1934-D26
EMPR P 1987-2
EMPR OF 2002-15
EMPR PF (Claim map, 1970)
GSC MAP 1966-3; 1278A
EMPR PFD 13526, 810348
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