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MINFILE No 082LSW055

File Created:	31-Mar-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)
Last Edit:	08-Apr-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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		NMI
Name	ESPERON 3, ESPERON, DOBBIN, ESP	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L002
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L04E
Latitude	050º 05' 56''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 41' 54''	Northing	5553113
		Easting	307028
Commodities	Molybdenum	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Esperon 3 showing is located 28 kilometres north northwest of Kelowna, north of Terrace 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 traces of disseminated molybdenite and pyrite.

In 1979 and 1980, Cominco Ltd. carried out geological mapping, induced polarization and magnetometer surveys.


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