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syenite (high-potassium) intrusions and
the Chuchi Lake and Duckling Creek
events. They are also slightly younger (late
Early Jurassic era) than the main pulse (at
the end of the Triassic era) of porphyry
copper mineralization in B.C. They are
closely associated in time with the final
stage of emplacement of the Quesnel
island arc onto the continental margin.
Northwest B.C.:
Grassroots exploration
In the Quesnel terrane of northwest B.C.,
exploration for porphyry-type mineralization
is currently focused east of Dease Lake
at the Eaglehead project of Copper Fox
Minerals Inc. and Carmax Mining Corp.,
where drilling is testing geophysical
anomalies in granodioritic intrusive rocks.
North of Dease Lake, Gold Jubilee
Capital Corp. is working at the Pyramid
project, hosted in a diorite phase of
a multi-phase intrusive complex.
South-central B.C.:
Operations and potential
The Quesnel terrane of south-central
B.C. hosts five operating mines including,
from north to south, Gibraltar (Taseko
Mines Limited, open-pit), Mount Polley
(Imperial Metals Corporation, open-pit and
underground), New Afton (New Gold Inc.,
underground), Highland Valley Copper
(Teck Resources Limited, open-pit) and
Copper Mountain (Copper Mountain
Mining Corp. and Mitsubishi Materials
Corp., open-pit). Individually, these mines
have workforces ranging between 220
and 1,300 employees, and cumulatively
have about 76 years of mine life.
Exploration-stage projects in
south-central B.C. for porphyry-type
mineralization include the proposed Ajax
mine of KGHM Ajax Mining Inc. near
Kamloops. The mine has a projected life of
18 years and a workforce of 350 permanent
jobs. Mineralization at Ajax is associated
with the Sugarloaf diorite intrusive phase
of the Iron Mask batholith.
EnGold Mines Ltd. drilled the Aurizon
South breccia zone on its Lac La Hache
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