MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092INW019

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	17-Jun-1998	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	AGATE, B	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	092I093
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092I14W
Latitude	050º 56' 47''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 25' 35''	Northing	5645042
		Easting	610544
Commodities	Copper, Molybdenum	Deposit Types	L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Cache Creek

Capsule Geology

Copper and molybdenum mineralization occur in altered metasediments of the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex that have been intruded by porphyry dikes.

Work by Canada West Petroleums Ltd. in 1970 comprised rotary drilling in one hole totalling 152 metres on the Agate 13 claim. Work done by Pan Ocean Oil Ltd. in 1972 included a magnetometer survey over 11.4 line kilometres and a geochemical survey comprising 185 samples.


Bibliography	EMPR ASS RPT 5261 EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271; 1987, pp. 417-419 EMPR GEM 1970-325; 1972-233 EMPR OF 1988-30; 1990-23 GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989 GSC MEM 262 GSC OF 165; 866; 980 GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 69-23; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 81-1A, pp. 185-189, 217-221; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358; 89-1E EMPR PFD 885330