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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  21-Jan-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name HILLTOP 9 Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M042
Status Showing NTS Map 082M05E
Latitude 051º 29' 07'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 37' 04'' Northing 5707042
Easting 318248
Commodities Copper Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

Metamorphic rocks consisting of quartz-feldspar chlorite gneiss, sericite chlorite phyllite, limestone and chlorite schist to greenstone of the Lower Cambrian part of the Eagle Bay Formation lie adjacent to the Cretaceous Baldy Batholith.

A pod of skarn, 18 by 9 metres, occurs within massive crystalline limestone. It consists of epidote, diopside, calcite, chlorite and garnet with minor pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. A sample assayed 0.14 per cent copper (Assessment Report 3430).

About 500 metres to the east, pods and lenses of pyrrhotite with minor pyrite and traces of chalcopyrite occur in highly fractured and sheared chlorite schist.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *3430
EMPR GEM 1971-437-438; 1972-90
EMPR OF 1986-5; 2000-7
GSC MAP 48-1963
GSC OF 637

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