MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082ESW080

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	30-Nov-1996	by	Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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		NMI
Name	YRD, URP	Mining Division	Osoyoos
		BCGS Map
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082E04W
Latitude	049º 00' 00''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 55' 20''	Northing	5431571
		Easting	286274
Commodities	Molybdenum, Copper, Lead	Deposit Types	L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Okanagan

Capsule Geology

The YRD showing is location along the International boundary, 16 kilometres west of the Similkameen River and 6.75 kilometres southwest of Snowy Mountain (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1968, page 220).

The YRD and URP claims were staked and explored in 1968 by Phelps Dodge Corp. of Canada Ltd. No assessment work was filed providing information on their exploration program, consisting of geological mapping, and geochemical rock and soil sampling.

The showing is hosted by the Middle Jurassic Similkameen batholith. Molybdenite and minor chalcopyrite and pyrite are hosted in quartz veins and disseminated in fractured quartz monzonite (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1968, page 220).

Molybdenite is widespread elsewhere in the Similkameen batholith. Minor molybdenite, chalcopyrite and galena were found to the northeast near Snowy Mountain on the OK 1 to 14 claims by Cominco in 1980 and 1981 (Assessment Reports 7908, 8579).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1968-220 EMPR ASS RPT 7808, *8579, 10097 EMPR OF 1989-5; 1991-17 GSC MAP 85A; 341A; 538A; 539A; 541A; 15-1961; 1736A; 2389 GSC MEM 38, pp. 425-478; 179 GSC OF 481; 637; 1505A; 1565; 1969 GSC P 37-21, pp. 37-40