MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092HSE022

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	11-Dec-1991	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	AZURITE (L.3268), COPPER GLANCE (L.3267), CAS	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H038
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H08W
Latitude	049º 19' 49''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 28' 48''	Northing	5467227
		Easting	683089
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Azurite showing is situated 1.5 kilometres east of Wolfe Creek and 14.5 kilometres south-southeast of Princeton.

The Azurite showing is hosted in hornblende porphyritic andesite and andesitic breccia of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, adjacent to the southern margin of the Early Jurassic Voigt stock (Copper Mountain Intrusions).

The volcanics are cut by magnetite-epidote veinlets, containing some chalcopyrite. Finely disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite are also present. The chalcopyrite is extensively altered to azurite in surface exposures. The copper content of this mineralization appears to be less than 1 per cent (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 171, page 43). Similar mineralization containing bornite occurs in diorite of the Voigt stock.

The showing was initially explored by a shaft, two tunnels and several opencuts excavated some time between 1900 and 1934. Sinmax Mines Ltd. carried out soil, magnetometer and geological surveys between 1968 and 1973.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1900-898; 1905-254

EMPR ASS RPT *1785, 2892, 4372

EMPR BULL *59, p. 78

EMPR GEM 1969-352; 1971-274,275; 1973-134

GSC BULL 239, pp. 140,141

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

GSC MEM *171, p. 43; 243, pp. 88,89

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

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 Special Volume 15, pp. 368-375 (1976)

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J.H. (1967): Petrology, Structure and Origin of the Copper Mountain Intrusions near Princeton, British Columbia; unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia

EMPR PFD 811749, 811755