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File Created: 21-Jan-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  16-Mar-2006 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name FRM 52, LODE, DP, BJP Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H046
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07W
Latitude 049º 29' 51'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 53' 28'' Northing 5484900
Easting 652702
Commodities Copper, Platinum, Palladium Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The FRM 52 showing lies 5.5 kilometres northwest of the summit of Lodestone Mountain and 27.5 kilometres west-northwest of Princeton.

Patchy chalcopyrite mineralization occurs in hornblende clinopyroxenite in the western margin of the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, near the contact with Upper Triassic Nicola Group metavolcanics. Two grab samples, 120 metres apart, analyzed as follows (in per cent) (Assessment Report 2742, Map 4):

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Sample Copper Chromium Nickel

AB 4 0.160 0.0012 0.0003

AB 5 0.126 0.0005 0.0003

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The showing was sampled by Fort Reliance Minerals Ltd. in 1970.

In 2001, at Tulameen, Bright Star Ventures Ltd. explored their 9500-hectare claim group in search of the lode source for the district’s historic placer platinum production. The work comprised an airborne magnetic/electromagnetic survey, prospecting and rock sampling.

In 2002, Bright Star Ventures Ltd. drilled 1024.8 metres in six holes on the DP target at or in the same plotted vicinity of MINFILE showing FRM 52 (092HSE120) on its BJP 2 claim. The DP zone was first identified as a strong magnetic anomaly from a 2001 airborne geophysical survey. Follow-up soil and rock geochemistry identified two significant north-northwest-trending soil anomalies (with up to 280 ppb platinum, 195 ppb palladium and 0.45 per cent copper) that extend over a combined strike length of 2 kilometres. Mineralization is described as “disseminated and fracture-controlled pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization with malachite staining…within magnetite-rich hornblende clinopyroxenite” (Bright Star Ventures Ltd., News Release, September 20, 2002). A one metre bedrock chip assayed 2.09 grams per tonne platinum group elements and 0.17 per cent copper; the best result from drilling were 0.2 per cent copper and 0.2 grams per tonne platinum group elements across 8.6 metres, and 0.66 grams per tonne platinum group elements across 2.0 metres (Exploration and Mining in BC 2002, pages 48,49).

In 2003, Joint venture partners Bright Star Ventures Ltd. and Cusac Gold Mines Ltd. drilled 600 metres in 4 holes, apparently all on the DP showing. The holes intersected gabbro and hornblende clinopyroxenite targets in the Tulameen ultramafic complex. Results were not available. Bright Star did announced that it discovered a new platinum occurrence within the central dunite core of the complex. Grab samples of serpentinized, chromite-bearing dunite returned values ranging from 0.54 to 24.9 grams per tonne platinum (Exploration and Mining in BC, 2003, page 58).

The property appears to have been idle in 2004 and 2005.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2742, 15434, 16661, 27009, 27040, 27189
EMPR EXPL 1988-B71-B81; 2002-41-50
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294
EMPR GEM 1970-382
EMPR OF 1988-25
EMPR P 1992-6
EMPR EXPL 2001-42; 2002-48,49; 2003-58
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)
EMPR EXPL 2002-48,49; 2003-58
PR REL Bright Star Ventures Ltd., Sept.18, 2001; Apr.9, Jul.25, Aug.8, Sept.20, 2002; March 25, 2003
N MINER Apr.29, 2003
Findlay, D.C. (1963): Petrology of the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex,
Yale District, British Columbia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Queen's
University, 415 pages.
EMPR PFD 8931, 8932, 8933, 8934, 8935, 8936, 889001

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