SURFICIAL DEPOSITS IN THE LOUIS CREEK AND CHU CHUA CREEK AREA
Surficial geological mapping and drift exploration studies were undertaken in the summer of 1997 north of Kamloops in NTS map sheets 92Pil (Louis Creek) and 92P18 (Chu Chua Creek), as a continuation of the Eagle Bay Project initiated in the previous year (Bohrowsky et al., 1997; Dixon-Warren er al., 1997). The surticial component is pat of an integrated regional study centred on Devono-Mississippian rocks of the Eagle Bay Assemblage and Permian to Devonian rocks of the Fennell Formation. Massive sulphide deposits hosted in stratiform volcanogenic assemblages of the Fennell Formation at Chu Chua (MINFILE 092P 140) and syngenetic sedimentary rocks of the Eagle Bay Assemblage at Mount Armour (MINFILE 092P 051) suggest the region has considerable mineral potential. Polymetallic gold-bearing veins hosted in volcanic and volcanogenic rocks of the Fennel Formation at Windpass (MINFILE 092P 039) also suggest a high potential for gold in the area. Several placer occurrences of Au have also been recorded in the region.
TILL GEOCHEMISTRY IN THE KOOTENAY , SLIDE MOUNTAIN AND QUESNEL TERRANES
A regional till sampling survey was undertaken during the summer of 1998 as year three of the Eagle Bay Project (Paulen et al., 1998a; Bobrowsky et al., 1997a; Dixon-Warren et al., 1997a); an integrated regional exploration program centred on Devono-Mississippian rocks of the Eagle Bay Assemblage and Permian to Devonian rocks of the Fennell Formation. Interesting results from the 1997 till geochemistry survey (Bobrowsky et al., 1998) encouraged a further extension of the program into the Upper Triassic-Jurassic rocks of the Nicola Group. Volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits hosted in the Fennell Formation, volcanogenic sulphide-barite deposits hosted in the Eagle Bay Formation, tombstone-style gold prospects hosted in the Baldy Batholith and the highly mineralized package of Nicola Group volcanic, sedimentary and associated intrusive rocks all suggest that the region has considerable mineral potential. Polymetallic gold-bearing veins hosted in volcanic assemblages of the Fennell Formation and the anomalous gold values in altered quartz vein float near the margin of the Thuya River Batholith also suggest a high potential for gold in the area. Related exploration studies included, mineral deposit studies in volcanogenic sediments of the lower Eagle Bay Assemblage (Höy, 1999), detailed property scale ice flow dispersal studies (Lett et al., 1999), till geochemistry sampling and reconnaissance mineralized boulder tracing. The till geochemistry sampling covered approximately 1000 square kilometres within five 1:50000 scale map sheets (Figure 1). This being year three of the project, the purpose of the sampling program was to cover the remaining area of the Eagle Bay Formation north of Shuswap Lake and the Adams River, within the NTS sheets 82M/3, 82L/13 and 82L/14 and to extend the till geochemistry coverage north and west of the North Thompson River Fault into the poorly explored and poorly understood rocks of the Quesnel Terrane within the NTS sheets 92P/8 and 92P/9. The objectives of the project were:
Assessing the Competitiveness of the Philippine Auto Parts Industry
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