MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092HSE019

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	12-Dec-1991	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI	092H8 Cu2
Name	R.S. (L.3357)	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H038
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H07E, 092H08W
Latitude	049º 20' 11''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 29' 58''	Northing	5467859
		Easting	681653
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The R.S. showing is located 300 metres east of Wolfe Creek and 13.5 kilometres south-southeast of Princeton.

Pyrite, magnetite and chalcopyrite occur in diorite of the Early Jurassic Voigt stock (Copper Mountain Intrusions), just east of a north striking, post-Early Cretaceous, quartz feldspar porphyritic felsite dyke ("Mine Dykes").

The old workings at this showing consist of a small shaft, a 30- metre long tunnel and several trenches, excavated some time between 1905 and 1934. The British Columbia Copper Company Ltd. explored this area in 1911 and 1912. The showing was most recently explored by Newmont Exploration of Canada Ltd., with the completion of soil, geophysical and geological surveys in 1987.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1905-256; 1908-127

EMPR ASS RPT 16745, 17462

EMPR BULL 59

GSC BULL 239, pp. 140,141

GSC MAP 300A; 569A; 888A; 889A; 1386A; 41-1989

GSC MEM *171, p. 43; 243, p. 88

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

GSC RPT 986 (1908)

GSC SUM RPT 1906, pp. 51,52

CIM BULL Vol. 44, No. 469, pp. 317-324 (1951); Vol. 61, No. 673, pp. 633-636 (1968)

CIM Trans. Vol. 18, pp. 192-201 (1915)

CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

Montgomery, J.H. (1967): Petrology, Structure and Origin of the Copper Mountain Intrusions near Princeton, British Columbia; unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia