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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  18-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name QUINTO III Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I075
Status Showing NTS Map 092I14E
Latitude 050º 47' 42'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 00' 56'' Northing 5628906
Easting 639855
Commodities Copper, Zinc Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Regionally the area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Nicola Group which is intruded by an Early Jurassic medium grained quartz hornblende diorite to diorite intrusion. Alteration of mafic minerals to chlorite is common in the dioritic rocks. Local concentrations of epidote, pink feldspar +/- calcite +/- magnetite are also observed. Nicola Group rocks consist of andesitic volcanic flows, tuffs and feldspar porphyries, coarse fragmentals and sedimentary rocks. The sedimentary sequence is composed of grey to white, fine grained, locally fossiliferous limestone.

The Quinto III occurrence comprises a very small showing of native copper, malachite and azurite in dark grey limestone that assayed 1.58 per cent copper and 0.2 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 6527). The limestone is bounded to the east and west by andesitic tuffs and flows.

The earliest known reference to work done in this area was in 1944, where the Fairview group of eight claims were held by Lester Starnes of Ashcroft and J.W. Oakes of Calgary. Some opencut work and diamond drilling were completed. The lowest working or pit is assumed to be the P & L showing (092INW052); about 914 metres northwest is a second pit that is assumed to be the Fairview or Main showing (092INW037). The Fairview property lapsed and then was restaked in 1955 by Ashdown and Winters. The B.C. Department of Mines completed a Geiger survey in 1958 but the results are unknown. In 1961, prospecting, line cutting and soil sampling was done in the area of the Main showing. In 1967, caterpillar trenching totalling 213 metres in four trenches was performed on the Main showing and supervised by M.P. Stadnyk. In 1971, Cache Creek Copper Mines Ltd. reportedly diamond drilled seven or eight holes totalling over 609 metres; some geological mapping was performed by Rio Tinto. L. Ovington restaked the area as the P & L claims in 1971. In 1972, Colt Management Ltd. contracted Kenting Earth Sciences to conduct a reconnaissance induced polarization survey consisting of two lines, 122 metres apart, totalling 3.2 kilometres. The property was optioned in 1972 to Northland Mines Ltd. and a magnetometer survey was done by M.P. Stadnyk. The claims lapsed in 1975 and were restaked as the Walla claim in the same year. The Walla claim lapsed in 1976 and the Quinto claims are a relocation of the lapsed Walla claim. In 1977, Quinto Mining Corporation completed geological mapping, geochemical and magnetometer surveying. In 1980, a geochemical and VLF-EM survey was completed. In 1983 and 1985, VLF-EM surveys were conducted. In 1996, three diamond-drill holes totalling 295 metres were put down on the Main showing by GWR Resources Inc. In late 2018 and early 2019, Golden Lion Resources Inc. completed a program of rock sampling and an airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Fairview property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 20, 3691, 4303, 4718, *6527, 8763, 11628, 12069, 14229
14723, 24483
EMPR EXPL 1977-E164
EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271; 1987, pp. 417-419
EMPR OF 1988-30
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; 82-1A, pp. 293-297;
85-1A, pp. 349-358
Koffyberg, A. (2019-03-12): Technical Report on the Fairview Property
EMPR PFD 811590

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