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File Created: 11-Jun-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name RABBIT SOUTH, RABBIT 1, TARGET A, TC 39-40, GOLDEN RUNNER Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I057
Status Showing NTS Map 092I10E
Latitude 050º 34' 32'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 41' 11'' Northing 5605182
Easting 663813
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Rabbit South (Target A, Rabbit 1) occurrence is located east of Chartrand Creek, approximately 1.1 kilometre south of the western end of Dominic Lake.

The area is underlain by volcanics and minor intercalated sediments of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group intruded by a younger (possibly Tertiary) zoned quartz monzonite stock (Roper Lake stock). Intermediate to mafic dikes cut both the intrusion and Nicola rocks. The Roper Lake stock is a north west-trending, elliptically- shaped intrusion approximately 1600 metres long by approximately 800 metres wide. Geological and geophysical evidence suggests that the stock plunges steeply northeast. A north west-striking fault is postulated to be present east of the intrusion proper and an outlier of the stock occurs on the up-thrown side of this fault.

The bulk of the Nicola rocks consist of greenish grey, semi-porphyritic andesites and basalts. Near the Roper Lake stock, the Nicola rocks are baked to a hard, flinty, hornfelsic rock and pyrite is abundant. The composition of the Roper Lake stock approximates a quartz monzonite. A crude zoning was noted in the intrusion, with a core of quartz-eye porphyry grading outward to a medium- to fine- grained quartz monzonite, slightly porphyritic in part. Quartz veining of several generations is commonly seen throughout the stock; usually these veins are narrow (1 centimetre or less), although veins as wide as 25 centimetres are present.

Locally, a tuff, adjacent to a feldspar porphyry intrusive, hosts quartz-carbonate veins, up to 10 centimetres wide, with pyrite.

In 1991, grab samples (R91-134R) yielded up to 0.80 gram per tonne gold, and a chip sample assayed 0.37 gram per tonne gold over 4 metres (Assessment Report 28412).

In 2005, a diamond drill hole (DTA0508) yielded 10.6 grams per tonne gold over 2 metres (Assessment Report 28412).

The area has been historically prospected in conjunction with the nearby Roper Lake (MINFILE 092INE071) occurrence since the early 1960‘s. In 1990, Noranda Mining completed a program of rock and soil sampling and an 8.6 line-kilometre ground induced polarization survey on the area. In 1991, a program of rock, soil and biogeochemical sampling was completed on the area as the Rabbit claims. In 1992, Cominco completed a 29.5 line-kilometre induced polarization survey. In 2001 and 2002, R. Bruaset completed programs of soil sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Golden Runner property. During 2005 through 2008, Global Hunter Corp. completed 29 diamond drill holes, totalling 7164.9 metres, on the area as the Rabbit South property. In 2011, the area was prospected by R. Bruaset.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1979-176
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 249
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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