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File Created: 27-Mar-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  14-Jun-2021 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MARB 72, GUS Mining Division Kamloops, Nicola
BCGS Map 092I025
Status Showing NTS Map 092I03E
Latitude 050º 12' 37'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 00' 26'' Northing 5563911
Easting 642188
Commodities Copper Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Marb 72 showing is located in outcrop 600 metres north of Shackelly Creek and 19 kilometres northwest of Merritt.

The area is underlain by Early Jurassic-Late Triassic Guichon Creek batholith Border phase quartz diorite and Upper Triassic Nicola Group massive fine-grained and porphyritic andesites, tuffs and agglomerates. Outcrop is generally sparse. The intrusive/volcanic contact zone is brecciated, sporadically mineralized and is hornfelsed with minor magnetite. Apophyses of quartz diorite and volcanic blocks are visible within the contact zone. Gneissosity in the intrusive is parallel to the contact.

Minor disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite occur in altered volcanic fragments and with chalcopyrite in small shears in the contact zone. One skarn outcrop appears brecciated and is comprised of epidote, garnet, actinolite and chlorite with minor chalcopyrite and trace malachite.

In 2012, Huldra Silver Inc. completed a 903 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Thule property. This work has isolated six magnetic anomalies (A through F) that have potential for magnetite skarn development, similar to the nearby Craigmont (MINFILE 092ISE035) deposit.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1961-39
EMPR ASS RPT 232, *735, 1923, 2096, 9757, *10195
EMPR BULL 56; 62
EMPR MAP *30
GSC MAP 886A; 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 249, 262
GSC P 46-8; 47-10
CIM Spec. Vol. 15 (1976), pp. 85-104
Cuttle, J. (2013-05-07): Technical Report on the Thule Copper-Iron Property
Northcote, K.E. (1968): Geology and Geochronolgy of the Guichon Creek Batholith, British Columbia, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, The
University of British Columbia

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