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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  26-May-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name ROK, EN2 Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H058
Status Showing NTS Map 092H09W
Latitude 049º 34' 33'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 25' 52'' Northing 5494642
Easting 685710
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Rok showing outcrops 1.5 to 3 kilometres northwest of Hayes Creek and 14 to 16 kilometres northeast of Princeton.

Molybdenite occurs as rare flakes in the aplitic border phase of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake batholith. The aplite surrounds and intrudes a zoned sill 3 kilometres long and 0.7 kilometre wide, comprised of microdiorite and hornblende-magnetite-biotite diorite, possibly of Triassic age. Molybdenite is reported to form rosettes in one instance (Assessment Report 14804).

The showing was mapped and soil sampled by Amax Exploration Inc. in 1971. Suburban Resources Ltd. prospected the showing in 1983.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3189, 14804
EMPR GEM 1971-277
GSC MAP 888A; 889A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358; 91-2, pp. 87-107

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