MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW003

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	31-Mar-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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		NMI
Name	TICK	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L003
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L03W
Latitude	050º 04' 04''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 25' 57''	Northing	5549001
		Easting	325924
Commodities	Molybdenum	Deposit Types	L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Undivided Metamorphic Assembl.

Capsule Geology

The Tick showing is located 25 kilometres southwest of Vernon, between Wood and Okanagan lakes.

Rhyolitic porphyry of the Eocene Coryell Intrusions intrudes Middle Jurassic porphyritic quartz monzonite of the informally named Terrace Creek batholith. Spherulitic and miarolitic textures in the porphyry indicate a high intrusion level. The intrusions cut metamorphic rocks of the Shuswap Terrane and are overlain with patches of volcanic rocks of the Eocene Penticton Group.

The K-feldspar porphyry hosts Tertiary, possibly Eocene, molybdenum mineralization. A 5-metre chip sample assayed 0.02 per cent molybdenite (Assessment Report 1694).

In 1968, Agricola Mines Ltd. carried out geological mapping and soil sampling.


Bibliography	EMPR ASS RPT *1694 EMPR FIELDWORK 1982, pp. 33-36; 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363 EMPR GEM 1969-278 EMPR MAP 7216G, 8512G EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30 EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966) EMPR RGS 1976 GSC MAP 1712A GSC MEM 296 GSC OF 637, 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60