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File Created: 15-Jul-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  04-Dec-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name CR Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H058
Status Showing NTS Map 092H09W
Latitude 049º 33' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 23' 57'' Northing 5493363
Easting 688066
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The CR occurrence is centred 2.25 kilometres northeast of the confluence of Hayes and Christian creeks, 14.5 kilometres northeast of Princeton.

The showing occurs in the southwestern margin of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake batholith, some 2.5 kilometres northeast of the contact with volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

Trenching and diamond drilling over an area 250 metres long and 50 metres wide has intersected gossanous, altered, fractured and locally brecciated granite, occasionally cut by quartz veinlets and shears containing pods of sericite up to 0.5 metre wide. Several holes intersected sections of well-altered granite 18 to 28 metres long exhibiting strong sericite and lesser kaolinite alteration. These sections contain 3 to 5 per cent pyrite, as disseminations and along fractures, and rare molybdenite, as films along shears and fractures. Sulphide mineralization diminishes with less intense alteration. The best grab sample from well-altered granite exposed in trenches assayed 0.033 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 14804).

The discovery of gossanous exposures along a newly built logging road prompted the staking of the showing in 1983. Suburban Resources Ltd. conducted soil and electromagnetic surveys, trenching and 350 metres of diamond drilling in three holes in 1983 and 1984.

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

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