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MINFILE No  093H 003
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Feb-1989 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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Name VAN WINKLE Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093H002
Status Showing NTS Map 093H04E
Latitude 053º 01' 32'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 41' 31'' Northing 5875913
Easting 587730
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The Van Winkle showing occurs in an area underlain dominantly by metasedimentary rocks of the Harveys Ridge succession of the Snowshoe Group. These rocks comprise black siltstone, phyllite, micaceous quartzite and limestone regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

Mineralization consists of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite in five quartz veins up to 0.6 metres wide.

Bibliography
EM EXPL 2000-9-23
EMPR AR 1933-126
EMPR ASS RPT 16315
EMPR PF (Sutherland Brown, A., Holland, S.S., (1956): The Structure of Northeast Cariboo District, in 93H General Property File)
GSC MAP 1424A
GSC MEM 149
WWW http://www.infomine.com/
EMPR PFD 14726, 681607
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