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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Mar-2022 by Bronwen Wallace (BW)

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Name OK, DONNY, AL, CAM, REY 7 Mining Division Nicola
BCGS Map 092I037
Status Showing NTS Map 092I07W
Latitude 050º 21' 33'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 45' 31'' Northing 5580968
Easting 659426
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The property lies within the Upper Triassic Nicola Group approximately 2.5 kilometres east of the Lower Jurassic Guichon Creek batholith. Bedrock consists mainly of plagioclase-augite intermediate pyroclastic and epiclastic breccia, conglomerate, tuff, sandstone with localized shale, carbonates and augite porphyry.

The showing is exposed in a 2.74 metre adit on the northeast side of the creek at creek level. In the adit there is a 20 centimetre wide fault striking 065 degrees and dipping 45 degrees southeast. A 5 centimetre quartz-carbonate vein striking 040 degrees and dipping 50 degrees to the southeast is exposed in the footwall of the fault. The quartz carries pyrite, galena and sphalerite; the carbonate is weakly pyritic. The wallrock throughout the adit is a grey, fine-grained siliceous tuff.

A grab sample from the vein assayed 0.38 per cent copper, 0.01 per cent molybdenum, 1.0 per cent zinc, 44.56 grams per tonne silver and 1.37 grams per tonne gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1967).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 1213, 1911
EMPR AR *1967-161; 1968-196
EMPR EXPL 1989-119-134
EMPR GEM 1969-270
EMPR PF (Geological notes)
EMPR PFD 10597, 10598, 907128, 907165
GSC MEM 249
GSC OF 980

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