MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GNE008

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	14-Sep-2007	by	Mandy N. Desautels (MND)

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		NMI	092G9 Mo1
Name	STAVE RIVER	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092G059
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092G09W
Latitude	049º 33' 27''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	122º 17' 41''	Northing	5489672
		Easting	551007
Commodities	Molybdenum, Copper, Silver	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

Molybdenite mineralization occurs 1.5 kilometres northeast of Stave River, 13 kilometres north-northwest of the north end of Stave Lake.

A quartz vein, 4.6 to 23 metres wide, strikes northwest for at least 152 metres and dips steeply southwest. The vein cuts Late Cretaceous foliated quartz diorite of the Tertiary to Jurassic Coast Plutonic Complex.

Mineralization consists of irregularly scattered disseminations and blebs of molybdenite, up to 0.05 metres in diameter. A grab sample assayed 1.5 per cent molybdenite, 0.3 per cent copper, 13.7 grams per tonne silver and trace gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1918, p. 289).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1918-228,229; 1931-176 EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-184 GSC MAP 1069A; 1151A; 1386A GSC MEM 335, p. 191 GSC P 86-1B, pp. 699-706; 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195; 90-1F, pp. 95-107 CANMET IR 592, 1925, p. 39 Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia