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MINFILE No 092HSE196

File Created:	08-Dec-1991	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	28-May-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	NO. 67 FRACTION (L.59S), NO. 68 FRACTION (L.60S)	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H038
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H07E
Latitude	049º 18' 22''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 32' 46''	Northing	5464383
		Easting	678373
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The No. 67 showing is situated on the east bank of the Similkameen River, 17 kilometres south-southwest 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. These rocks are intruded by diorite and monzonite, locally pyroxenite and gabbro, of the Early Jurassic Copper Mountain and Lost Horse intrusions.

This occurrence consists of a high-grade bornite showing in pegmatite and syenite of the Copper Mountain stock (Copper Mountain Intrusions). A hole drilled to a depth of 30 metres encountered a narrow section of bornite mineralization.

This showing was initially explored by an adit some time before 1934. Copper Mountain Mines Ltd. drilled one hole in 1960. Newmont Exploration of Canada Ltd. completed soil and geophysical surveys over the showing in 1987.

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT 16745

EMPR BULL 59

EMPR PF (*Collishaw, R. (1960): Letter to J.M. Carr, page 3 (see 092HSE080))

GSC BULL 239, pp. 140,141

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

GSC MEM 171; 243

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

CIM BULL Vol. 44, No. 469, pp. 317-324 (1951); Vol. 61, No. 673, pp. 633-636 (1968)

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J.H. (1967): Petrology, Structure and Origin of the Copper Mountain Intrusions near Princeton, British Columbia; unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia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 8972