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File Created: 04-Dec-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  29-May-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name Y, Y 2, Y 15 Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H028
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08W
Latitude 049º 17' 04'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 29' 15'' Northing 5462114
Easting 682713
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Y showing is located 4.5 kilometres east of the Similkameen River and 19.5 kilometres south-southeast of Princeton.

The area is underlain by the eastern facies of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group consisting of mafic augite and hornblende porphyritic pyroclastics and flows.

Volcanic breccia, crystal tuff and tuffaceous argillite of the Nicola Group are exposed in an old trench at the headwaters of Wolfe Creek. A large portion of the volcanics are silicified. Chloritization of mafic phenocrysts is also evident. The altered volcanics contain 2 to 5 per cent disseminated pyrrhotite and pyrite, with traces of chalcopyrite.

In 1971, Coin Canyon Mines completed a program of soil sampling and ground magnetometer and induced polarization surveys on the area as the Y claims. During 1991 through 1994, G.F. Crooker completed programs of silt sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Tas 1-2 claims. In 1996, Moreleigh Minerals completed a program of geological mapping, soil and rock sampling and ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys. In 2009 through 2011, Supreme Resources completed programs of geochemical sampling and a 19.5 kilometre induced polarization survey.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3187, *3188, 22427, 23649, 25102, 31363, 33062
EMPR BULL 59
EMPR GEM 1971-275
GSC MAP 569A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

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