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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 MULVEHILL Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082L090
Status Showing NTS Map 082L16E
Latitude 050º 51' 15'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 07' 24'' Northing 5634209
Easting 420930
Commodities Thorium, Rare Earths, Silica Deposit Types C04 : Paleoplacer U-Au-PGE-Sn-Ti-diam-mag-gar-zir
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Monashee
Capsule Geology

The Mulvehill occurrence is located south west of Upper Arrow Lake and north of Mulvehill Creek.

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, a 500- metre long radioactive zone, with up to 50,000 counts per second on a McPhar TV-1, occurs in impure sericitic quartzite. Foliation strikes 035 degrees and dips 24 degrees southeast. At the north end of the zone is an intra-formational, stretched, sericitic quartz pebble conglomerate. Here, radioactivity of over 100,000 counts per second is associated with hematite and limonite. Thorium and rare earths are the likely source of the radioactivity.

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. These programs were centered on the Karen (MINFILE 082LNE037) occurrence to the south east.

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, the area was prospected as the Mul-Ree and Kar-Ree claims. 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 OF *1990-32
GSC MAP 235A; 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 658

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