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File Created: 12-Nov-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  22-Apr-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name RUBY (L.3331S) Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 092H040
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08E
Latitude 049º 22' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 05' 17'' Northing 5472296
Easting 711405
Commodities Gold Deposit Types K04 : Au skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Ruby showing is situated on the north bank of the Similkameen River, 1.2 kilometres northwest of Hedley.

Various small stocks, dykes and sills of hornblende diorite and gabbro of the Early Jurassic Hedley Intrusions intrude thin-bedded siltstone, argillite and limestone of the Upper Triassic Stemwinder Mountain Formation (Nicola Group). Limestone beds are weakly to moderately altered to fine-grained garnet diopside skarn adjacent to the Hedley Intrusions.

The skarn zones are mineralized with disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite. A sample of such skarn taken near a collapsed adit assayed 2.3 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17785, page 4, sample 5424).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *17785
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 101-105; 1986, pp. 65-79; 1987, pp. 59-80
EMPR OF 1987-10; 1988-6
EMPR P 1989-3, pp. 19-35
GSC MAP 568A; 888A; 889A; 41-1989
GSC OF 2167, pp. 59-80

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