VMS Mineral Property Available for Option

 Tanore Property

Summary:

UPDATE: This Property is No Longer Available

Location and Access:
The Tanore property (MinFile: 092HSW085) is located in Tamihi Creek Valley, adjacent to the USA boundary in the New Westminster Mining Division of Southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The City of Chilliwack is 20 kilometres to the north in the Fraser River valley.

Access to the 5,740 hectare Property is via paved highways through the Upper Fraser Valley and then by the Tamihi Forest Service Road into the mineral tenures.

Description:
Property was discovered in the early 1970s and subsequently explored from 1972 to 1984, in the following order by: Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited, Cominco Ltd., Great Plains Development Company of Canada, Ltd., Lornex Mining Corporation Limited and Aberford Resources Ltd. The identified exploration target was a large stratiform Noranda/Kuroko Massive Sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn system (VMS) with potential for economic grades and thicknesses. Exploration work included mapping, rock sampling, silt and soil sampling, ground/airborne geophysics and minor trenching and drilling. The east boundary of the property is near BC MinFile gold showings on the western margin of the Mid-Tertiary Chilliwack batholith intrusive rocks near Mt. Slesse and American Peak.

The recommendations from the last technical reports written on the Property in the 1980s were to drill more and deeper holes as well as exploring beyond the known showings toward the west and south. The Property is located in an area of southwestern British Columbia that has a long mining history and has a mature infrastructure that is favourable toward the efficient development and operation of resource projects. It is important to recognize that the Tanore VMS occurrence is 125km southeast of BC's largest VMS historical producer, the Britannia Mine. Britannia is classed as a Noranda/Kuroko VMS, and it produced 48 million tonnes of copper-zinc-lead ore (with minor cadmium, silver and gold) from 1905 to 1988. During the 1920s it was considered the largest copper mine in the British Empire (MinFile: 092GNW003). Other VMS occurrences in the Harrison Lake and Chilliwack region are the Seneca (MinFile: 092HSW013) and the Krof (MinFile: 092HNW070).

Geology:
Sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite are present in quartz vein stockworks, breccias and replacements associated with a Permo-Pennsylvanian series of subaqueous volcanic and related sedimentary rocks.

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Additional Information:
http://imperial.minfile.gov.bc.ca/Summary.aspx?minfilno=092HSW085

Contact: John Chapman or Gerald Carlson
Telephone: (604) 536-8356 or (604) 816-3012
Email: jacms1@telus.nt
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