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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  18-Dec-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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NMI 082F2 Au6
Name MORAN, BLUE BIRD (L.9357), MAY FLOWER (L.9356), LAST CHANCE (L.9358), BLUEBIRD Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F016
Status Showing NTS Map 082F02W
Latitude 049º 09' 06'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 56' 04'' Northing 5444318
Easting 504780
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Moran property consists of three Reverted Crown grants (May Flower, Blue Bird and Last Chance, Lots 9356-9358 respectively) at elevations of 1920 to 2133 metres on the northeast ridge of John Bull Mountain near the head of Bluebird Creek, 30 kilometres west-northwest of Creston. The claims lie between the Bayonne (082FSE030) to the west and the Summit Bell (082FSE034) to the east.

The Bluebird claim was owned in 1910 by T. Moran and W. Gasnell. Development work had been done in a 7-metre crosscut adit which was expected to reach the vein in another 12 metres. The claims were Crown-granted to Moran and Gasnell in 1915.

The claims are underlain by granodiorite of the Mine stock, part of the Nelson intrusions of Middle Jurassic age. Gold-silver values apparently occur in a vein-type deposit (National Mineral Inventory 082F2 Au6). The surrounding area was explored more recently by Goldrich Resources (Assessment Report 16846).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1910, p. 112; 1915, p. 449; 1937-E10
EMPR ASS RPT 16846
EMPR FIELDWORK 1994, pp. 135-155
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929; 2721

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