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File Created: 03-Apr-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-May-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KAREN, ARCL Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082L090
Status Showing NTS Map 082L16E
Latitude 050º 50' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 06' 29'' Northing 5632803
Easting 421985
Commodities Rare Earths, Thorium, Uranium, Lanthanum, Cerium, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Samarium, Gadolinium Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Monashee
Capsule Geology

The Karen occurrence is located south west of Upper Arrow Lake between Mulvehill and Blanket creeks.

The area is underlain by quartzite, quartz arenite sedimentary rocks and calc-silicate metamorphic rocks of the Proterozoic to Lower Paleozoic Monashee Complex. The strata strikes northwest and dips moderately to the northeast.

Locally, radioactivity is associated with a narrow zone of weathered muscovite schist flanked by quartzite. Probable mineralogy is monazite, allanite and euxenite (Assessment Report 11697).

In 1978, a chip sample assayed 0.06 per cent thorium oxide, 0.0036 per cent uranium, 0.36 per cent lanthanum, 0.815 per cent cerium, 0.08 per cent praseodymium, 0.38 per cent neodymium, 0.05 per cent samarium and 0.05 per cent gadolinium (Assessment Report 7232).

In 2005, rock sampling of old pits yielded up to 0.011 per cent uranium, 0.25 per cent lanthanum, 0.54 per cent cerium, 0.23 per cent neodymium and greater than 0.1 per cent thorium (Sample 288467; Assessment Report 28294).

In 1978, Wollex Exploration completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the ARCL 1-2 claims. In 1982, Aurun Mines completed a program of rock sampling, geological mapping and a ground radiometric survey on the area as the Karen claim. In 2005, Whistler Gold completed a program of rock sampling and a ground scintillometer survey on the area as the Cranberry Creek property. In 2013 and 2014, the area was prospected as the Mul-Ree and Kar-Ree claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *7232, *11697, *28294, 34046, 35200
EMPR EXPL 1979-107; 1983-152
EMPR OF *1990-32
GSC MAP 235A; 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 658

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