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MINFILE No 092HNE232

File Created:	26-May-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	01-Dec-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	BONACCI, SLEEPER, LUCKY 2	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H058
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H09W
Latitude	049º 33' 05''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 26' 09''	Northing	5491913
		Easting	685461
Commodities	Copper, Lead	Deposit Types	L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Bonacci showing outcrops along the northwest bank of Christian Creek, below the Kettle Valley Railway, 12 kilometres north-northeast of Princeton.

A pyritic zone, 350 metres long and up to 180 metres wide is developed in quartz monzodiorite, monzonite and diorite in the outer part of a zoned intrusion, 1.2 kilometres wide. This stock intrudes andesitic to basaltic volcanics of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

The monzodiorite exhibits clay, epidote and chlorite alteration. Mineralization consists of pink quartz-carbonate veinlets carrying chalcopyrite and minor pyrite and galena.

The west end of the pyritic zone was tested by two adits excavated in 1942. Kennco Explorations (Western) Ltd. and Amax Exploration completed geological, geophysical and soil geochemical surveys over the showing in 1959 and 1969. Additional geological mapping and petrographic studies were conducted by Quintana Minerals Corporation in 1977 and by P. Peto in 1989.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1942-69

EMPR ASS RPT 318, 6292, *18863, 20113

EMPR PF (von Rosen, G.E.A. (1971): Report on the Jura Copper Property, 7 miles north of Princeton, B.C., for Cop-Ex Mining Corporation Ltd., in Cop-Ex Mining Corporation Ltd. (1971): Statement of Material Facts (Prospectus), Vancouver Stock Exchange (see 092HSE057))

GSC MAP 888A; 889A; 1386A; 41-1989

GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358

CIM Special Volume 15, Map B (Occurrence 314) (1976)

CJES Vol. 16, pp. 1658-1672 (1979); Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

EMPR PFD 8609, 820860, 820859, 826742