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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name ADRIANA, NAB, MCNAB MOLYBDENUM Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G063
Status Showing NTS Map 092G11W
Latitude 049º 38' 03'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 25' 36'' Northing 5498044
Easting 469191
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Gambier
Capsule Geology

The Adriana occurrence is located on McNab Creek, approximately 8.6 kilometres north-northwest of the creek mouth on Thornbrough Channel, Howe Sound.

The area is underlain by various phases of the Cenozoic-Mesozoic Coast Plutonic Complex and a small pendant of Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks. The intrusive rocks vary from quartz diorite with diorite inclusions, to granodiorite.

Mineralization consisting of pyrite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite and minor bornite hosted in the quartz diorite near its projected contact with granodiorite. The sulphides occur either on fracture plane surfaces or are associated with quartz veining. Minor sericite, epidote and chlorite are evident. Gambier Group rocks mask the eastward continuation of the mineralization.

In 1979, Tri-Con Mining, on behalf of Silverado Mines, completed a program of silt and soil sampling on the area as the Adriana 1-9 claims. Denarii Resources Inc. operated the property in 2010.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *7935
EMPR EXPL 1979-137
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-178
EMPR GEM 1972-276
GSC MAP 42-1963; 1386A
GSC MEM 158
GSC OF 611
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195; 90-1F, pp. 95-107
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia

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