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MINFILE No 082LSW053

File Created:	31-Mar-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)
Last Edit:	31-Mar-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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		NMI
Name	ESPERON 2, ESPERON, DOBBIN, ESP	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L012
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L04E
Latitude	050º 06' 50''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 41' 39''	Northing	5554770
		Easting	307386
Commodities	Molybdenum, Tungsten	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Esperon 2 showing is located 29 kilometres north-northwest of Kelowna, north of Dun Waters Creek.

In this area, Middle Jurassic quartz monzonite of the informally named Terrace Creek batholith intrudes argillaceous sediments of the Eocene Penticton Group. The stock is cut by diorite plugs and dikes which are intruded by quartz monzonite and aplite dikes. The intrusive rocks are cut by Tertiary basalt dikes related to volcanic rocks which overlie the older rocks.

Chloritized and sericitized quartz monzonite porphyry hosts molybdenum mineralization. Quartz veinlets, usually 1 to 10 centimetres thick, carry blebs of molybdenite, scheelite and pyrite. The bottom 8 metres of the drill hole assayed 0.025 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 8664). A 30-metre section above this zone assayed 0.045 per cent tungsten (Assessment Report 8664).

Another drill hole, 800 metres to the southeast, encountered 4.5 metres of 0.021 per cent molybdenum.

In 1979 and 1980, Cominco Ltd. carried out geological mapping, induced polarization, magnetometer and percussion drill programs.


Bibliography	EMPR ASS RPT 7753, 8664, 17916, 18986, 20271 EMPR EXPL 1979-99,100; 1980-131 EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363 EMPR MAP 37, 5207G, 7216G EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30 EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966) EMPR RGS 1976 GSC MEM 296 GSC OF 637, 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60 Chevron File EMPR PFD 842330, 842331