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MINFILE No 092HSE095

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	04-Apr-2022	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI	092H7,10 Cu11
Name	ASP, LODE	Mining Division	New Westminster, Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H046
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H07W
Latitude	049º 29' 28''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 50' 28''	Northing	5484293
		Easting	656342
Commodities	Copper, Silver	Deposit Types	L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel, Methow

Capsule Geology

The Asp showing is about 3 kilometres north-northwest of the summit of Lodestone Mountain and 24 kilometres west-northwest of Princeton.

Bornite and chalcopyrite occur as very fine disseminations in olivine gabbro within the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex. This mineralization appears to be associated with faults and forms lenticular and discontinuous zones with gradational margins. A chip sample of altered gabbro with disseminated bornite, 3.4 metres long, assayed 3.51 per cent copper and 11 grams per tonne silver (G. White, 1969, page 28).

Work History

The showing was trenched and soil sampled by Sicintine Mines Ltd. in 1969 and 1970.

In 2018, GSP Resources Corp. completed a program of soil sampling and a 370 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Olivine Mountain property. The following year, seven diamond drill holes, totalling 1200 metres, were completed on the Olivine Mountain property.

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT *2526, 12506, 15434, 16661, 17819, 18675, 27009, 37592, 38279, 38875, 39918

EMPR EXPL 1988-B71-B81

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294

EMPR GEM 1970-382,383

EMPR OF 1988-25

EMPR P 1992-6

EMPR PF (*White, G. (1969): Preliminary Report on the Asp Claim Group, in Sicintine Mines Ltd. (1970): Prospectus, pages 26-31)

GSC MAP 46A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989

GSC MEM 26; 243

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

CJES Vol. 6, pp. 399-425 (1969); Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

Findlay, D.C. (1963): Petrology of the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, Yale District, British Columbia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Queen's University, 415 pages.

Kerr, J.R. (2018-10-04): Technical Report on the Olivine Mountain Property

Discovery Consultants (2020-07-27): Technical Report on the Olivine Mountain Property, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

EMPR PFD 8911, 8912