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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Mar-1995 by Gerry Ray (GR)

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NMI 082L5 Mo1
Name KENALLAN, BUM, MOLY, CHIP, YOKAHAMA, BRENDA, WIN, GRAND PRAIRIE, KEY, FOREST QUEEN, ALICE HAY, HENRIETTA, NELSON, SIX-MILE CREEK, SILVER WEDDING, BONACCORD Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L041
Status Prospect NTS Map 082L05W
Latitude 050º 26' 21'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 49' 06'' Northing 5591257
Easting 299879
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper, Gold Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
K07 : Mo skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Kenallan prospect is located 19 kilometres west of Falkland, southwest of Westwold.

In this area, sedimentary rocks of the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group are in probable unconformable contact with Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Granitic rocks of the Triassic to Jurassic Klotassin Intrusions intrude the Harper Ranch and Nicola groups. Extensive Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic rocks cap the older rocks.

The Harper Ranch Group hosts molybdenum and lesser copper mineralization. Within commonly hornfelsed cherty siltstones and argillites, two narrow stratabound skarn zones, 150 metres apart, host clusters of coarse books, rosettes and fine disseminations of molybdenite and minor chalcopyrite and pyrite. The skarn mineralogy includes pyroxene, garnet, and wollastonite.

The West Skarn Zone, 335 metres long, 0.15 to 2.4 metres thick, and the East Skarn Zone, 245 metres long, 0.15 to 2.4 metres thick, are erratically mineralized. The skarn zones grade into marble along strike. Molybdenite mineralization also occurs in small granitic apophyses.

Samples taken by government engineers assayed as high as 3.61 per cent molybdenite (Assessment Report 282). Several excavations were made from which 45 to 67 tonnes of ore grading 1 to 2 per cent, were removed (Assessment Report 282).

The showings were discovered by 1892. By 1901, an exploration shaft and open cuts had been recorded on 5 claims. In 1959, Noranda Exploration carried out geological mapping. In 1966, Northwest Ventures Ltd. conducted trenching and drilling programs. Dresser Industries, in 1966, carried out geological mapping, soil geochemistry and magnetometer surveys. In 1978-80, Denar Mines Ltd. carried out geological mapping, trenching and drill programs. In 1981 Score Resources Ltd. conducted electromagnetic and magnetic surveys.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1892-540; 1893-1069; 1896-568; 1898-1107; *1899-733; 1901-1080; *1915-216,217,218; 1936-D53; *1964-104,105
EMPR ASS RPT 282, *2360, 9972
EMPR BULL 9, p. 28, 82
EMPR EXPL 1978-E95; *1979-103; *1980-133,134; 1981-169
EMPR FIELDWORK 1982, pp. 89-92; 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363
EMPR MAP 5214G, 7216G
EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30
EMPR PF (Geological Plan, Moly Property, date unknown; Correspondence, W. Robertson, 1915; In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966; Property Examination Report, Canadian Superior Exploration, 1972)
EMPR RGS 1976
GSC EC GEOL *20, pp. 43, 272-275
GSC MAP 47-6, 48-4, 1059A, 1712A
GSC MEM 296 p. 146
GSC MISC RPT 8, p. 22
GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60
GCNL c. 1979
EMPR PFD 4558, 4559, 4560, 4561, 4562, 823653

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