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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name CHER Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G072
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12E
Latitude 049º 42' 48'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 36' 59'' Northing 5507677
Easting 599746
Commodities Copper Deposit Types E04 : Sediment-hosted Cu
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Cher showing, stratabound chalcopyrite and bornite occur within argillites and quartzites of the Helikian Fort Steele Formation (Purcell Supergroup). There is little recorded data to confirm the character and/or location of this mineralization.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1971-419
EMPR MAP 36
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM 76

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