| Title | The search for surficial expressions of buried Cordilleran porphyry deposits; background and progress in a new Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4 activity in the southern Canadian Cordillera, British
Columbia |
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| Author | Anderson, R G; Plouffe, A; Ferbey, T; Dunn, C E |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research (Online) no. 2012-7, 2012, 19 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/290295 (Open Access) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is related to the following
publications |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | British Columbia |
| NTS | 92I; 93A; 93B |
| Area | Nicola River; Kamloops Lake; Fraser River; Cordillera; Woodjam District |
| Lat/Long WENS | -122.4100 -122.1339 52.6600 52.4111 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -121.3314 -121.3314 52.2675 52.2125 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -121.7594 -121.7594 50.8092 50.1706 |
| Subjects | metallic minerals; surficial geology/geomorphology; porphyry deposits; porphyry copper; molybdenum; mineralization; mineral deposits; tills; ice movement directions; glacial deposits; biogeochemical
surveys; alteration; Gibraltar mine; Granite Mountain batholith; Guichon Creek batholith; Highland Valley mine; Chilcotin Group; Copper Mountain plutonic suite; Nicola Group; Takomkane batholith; bark geochemistry; Tertiary; Triassic;
Jurassic |
| Illustrations | sketch maps; photographs |
| Program | Intrusion/Porphyry Ore Systems, Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) |
| Released | 2012 07 04 |
| Abstract | The Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4 is a five-year federal program to provide public geoscience knowledge to improve deep mineral exploration effectiveness. In southern British Columbia, the focus is
on porphyry base- and precious-metal districts.
Preliminary, interjurisdictional activities focused on the sampling of tree bark, as a probe into the subsurface, and glacial till derived from eroded bedrock and mineral deposits. The first stage
comprised pilot studies at the Woodjam district, and Gibraltar and Highland Valley mines in autumn of 2011. The determination of complex ice-flow directions from map- to outcrop-scale ice-movement indicators help trace geochemical and
indicator-mineral anomalies back to the original buried deposits.
The studies helped test the sampling media (tree bark and till) as indicators of buried mineralization and thereby help increase the effectiveness of deep mineral
exploration. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 290295 |
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