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

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Name ESPERON 1, ESPERON, DOBBIN Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L012
Status Prospect NTS Map 082L04E
Latitude 050º 06' 29'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 42' 51'' Northing 5554173
Easting 305933
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Esperon 1 prospect is located 29 kilometres north-northwest of Kelowna, south of Dun Waters Creek.

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

Chloritized and sericitized porphyritic quartz monzonite hosts molybdenum mineralization. Quartz veinlets carry disseminated molybdenite and pyrite. A 25-metre chip sample assayed 0.021 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 8664).

About 600 metres to the east, straddling Dun Waters Creek, quartz veins carrying disseminated molybdenite cut chloritized and sericitized porphyritic quartz monzonite, adjacent to diorite, and a quartz monzonite dike intruding argillites.

In 1979-80, Cominco Ltd. carried out geological mapping, induced polarization and magnetometer surveys.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *7753, *8664
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
EMPR PFD 842330, 842331

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