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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Jun-2020 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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Name BAR-BARRIERE, TONY, PAT, LUXOR Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M031
Status Prospect NTS Map 082M05W
Latitude 051º 23' 58'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 52' 07'' Northing 5698151
Easting 300462
Commodities Molybdenum, Silver, Niobium, Uranium Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Bar-Barriere occurrence is located on the east side of Harper Creek, approximately 7.5 kilometres southeast of Dunn Peak and at an elevation of approximately 1020 metres.

The area is underlain by quartz-monzonite and granodiorite of the Cretaceous Baldy Batholith. Later-phase aplite dikes and quartz veins are common throughout the rock. Locally, the quartz-monzonite is fractured, brecciated and altered.

Locally, a 150- by 100-metre area, referred to as the Main zone, contains a well-fractured, brecciated and altered biotite-hornblende quartz monzonite, granite or granodiorite with disseminations, blebs and fracture coatings of molybdenite and trace chalcopyrite. Molybdenite is also reported to be associated with potassium feldspar-quartz veinlets. Alteration includes silicification, sericitization, oxidation and chloritization.

In 1957, surface sampling of an open-cut yielded up to 3.8 per cent molybdenum over 0.45 metre and 0.31 per cent molybdenum over 3.0 metres, whereas diamond drilling at the time yielded 0.17 per cent molybdenum over 4.5 metres in hole no. 3 (Property File - McDougall, J.J. [1957-12-19]: Report on Barriere Molybdenite and Christina Lake Molybdenite). Other samples are reported to have yielded up to 0.02 per cent niobium and 27.4 grams per tonne silver (Property File - McDougall, J.J. [1957-12-19]: Report on Barriere Molybdenite and Christina Lake Molybdenite).

In 1980, grab samples yielded from 0.15 to 0.35 per cent molybdenite, or 0.09 to 0.21 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 8952). The following year, a drill hole (DDH T 81-2), located on the ridge approximately 700 metres to the east, intersected two similar zones of mineralization yielding 0.030 and 0.025 per cent molybdenite (0.018 and 0.015 per cent molybdenum), respectively, over 15.2 metres (Assessment Report 10111).

In 2005, rock samples from the main zone yielded up to 0.365 per cent molybdenum, whereas two other samples taken approximately 500 metres to the south and 1.3 kilometres to the east- south east yielded 0.131 and 0.111 per cent molybdenum, respectively (Property File - Murray, K. [2005-10-02]: Geochemical survey map - Luxor property).

In 2007, diamond drilling yielded intercepts of 0.093 per cent molybdenum over 3 metres in hole LX07-01, 0.068 and 0.030 per cent molybdenum over 3 and 6 metres, respectively, in hole LX07-02 (Assessment Report 29974). Hole LX07-02 also yielded 0.007 per cent uranium over a 3-metre interval (Assessment Report 29974).

In 2009, diamond drilling yielded intercepts of 0.030 per cent molybdenum over 18.0 metres, including 0.065 per cent molybdenum over 6.0 metres in hole LX10-5; 0.055 and 0.046 per cent molybdenum over 3 metres in hole LX10-6 and 0.079 per cent molybdenum over 6 metres, including 0.115 per cent molybdenum over 3 metres, in hole LX10-7 (Assessment Report 32351).

The area has been explored since at least the 1950’s, with programs of diamond drilling and trenching performed on the area as the Pat claims. In 1980, A.P.I. Mineral Exploration Corp. completed a program of silt sampling and a diamond drill hole, totalling 305 metres, on the area as the Tony claims. The following year, a program of soil sampling and a diamond drill hole, totalling 609 metres, were completed. In 1982, a program of geological mapping was performed. In 2005, the area was prospected and sampled as the Luxor property. In 2007, Kingsman Resources completed four diamond drill holes, totalling 722.0 metres. In 2009, a program of soil sampling and a 21.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey were completed. In 2010, a further seven diamond drill holes, totalling 1066.0 metres, were completed.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1964-99; 1966-144
EMPR ASS RPT *8952, *10111, *10829, *29974, 31040, *32351
EMPR OF 2000-7
EMPR PF (McDougall, J.J. [1957-11-15]: Preliminary Report on Barriere Molybdenite Prospect, Barriere, B. C.; *McDougall, J.J. [1957-12-19]: Report on Barriere Molybdenite and Christina Lake Molybdenite; Midgley, G.L. [1966-08-01]: Claim Map of the Harper Creek Valley - Sheet No. 2 West Moly Mines; unknown [1966-11-10]: Claim Map of the Barriere Property with Records; *Murray, K. [2005-10-02]: Geochemical survey map - Luxor property; Murray, K. [2005-10-27]: Re: Luxor Moly MINFILE)
GSC MAP 48-1963
GSC OF 637
Thomson, G. (2007-09-25): Compliance Report on the Luxor Property.

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