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File Created: 03-Mar-1987 by Mary McLean (MM)
Last Edit:  03-Dec-2024 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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Name OLYMPIC (L.6280) (BILLYO ZONE), OLYMPIC (MOLY ZONE), BILLYO, MOLY Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J087
Status Prospect NTS Map 092J15E
Latitude 050º 53' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 44' 05'' Northing 5638275
Easting 518656
Commodities Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River, Cadwallader
Capsule Geology

The OLYMPIC (L.6280) (BILLYO ZONE) prospect is located east of Howe (Marquis) Creek on the south shore of Carpenter Lake, approximately 8.5 kilometres northeast of Gold Bridge, B.C.

The BillyO "massive sulphide" zone is hosted in Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group) metasediments. Trenching exposes a garnet-diopside skarn in iron-oxidized vesicular felsite breccia containing lensoid pyrite, pyrrhotite, magnetite and chalcopyrite. An adit and nearby drill holes located pyrite and magnetite stringers but failed to reach massive sulphide mineralization. Over 30 centimetres, sulphides geochemically analysed 0.27 grams per tonne gold, 3.43 grams per tonne silver and 0.06 per cent copper and a grab sample ran 5.9 grams per tonne gold, 5.14 grams per tonne silver and 0.55 grams per tonne copper.

The Moly zone, on the west side of the BillyO zone, contains fracturing and quartz veining adjacent to or within a broad aplite dike surrounded by a pyrite/gypsum halo. Mineralization consists of pyrite, pyrrhotite (dendritic), manganese staining, ferro-molybdenum staining and arsenopyrite.

The Kelvin and Olympic areas saw initial development in the mid 1930s and again in the mid 1940s with underground drifting plus some drilling on the Kelvin prospect. In 1980, Noranda Mines Ltd. undertook geological mapping, soil geochemical sampling and magnetometer surveying in the area, in addition to drilling two holes in the Moly zone. A mapping, sampling and geological report on the Kelvin and Olympic prospects, including BillyO, was completed by B. Price in 1982 (Assessment Report 11139). Big I Developments Ltd. conducted programs of geological mapping, grid soil geochemical sampling in the area in 1985, as well as extending southward with prospecting up Girl Creek (south of the Kelvin prospect) and up Howe (Marquis) Creek south of the Olympic prospect.

Avino Mines and Resources Ltd. acquired the Minto property to the north of Carpenter Lake and the Olympic property south of the lake in 1987, and conducted programs of soil sampling, airborne VLF-EM and magnetometer survey, trenching and diamond drilling through to 2005 (Assessment Reports 16964, 17790, 18433, 27443, 28340).

In 2022 and 2023, Endurance Gold Corp. conducted prospecting and geochemical orientation and sampling surveys on their Olympic property and on the Sanchez property to the east, as part of their Reliance Gold project. These surveys established parallel northwest trending targets across the Kelvin, Minto-Olympic and Enigma-Dauntless areas (Assessment Report 41676).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1934-F31; 1935-F56; 1945-A88; 1946-A114
EMPR ASS RPT 8293, 8954, *11139, 12607, *14344, 16964, 18433, 41676
EMPR BULL 100
EMPR EXPL 1979-187
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, p. 38; 1985, pp. 303-310; 1986, pp. 23-29; 1987,
pp. 93-104; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR GEOFILE 1999-01
EMPR GEOLOGY 1975-G58
http://endurancegold.com/projects/reliance-gold-project-b.c/
EMPR PF (Geology map by Lacana, 1984; Geology map of Kelvin-Olympic properties, 1988; Geology around Moly adit, Middle Hill adit, Upper Hill adit, 1987; Sketch map of adit locations; Geology map of Olympic claims, 1988)
GSC MAP 431A
GSC MEM 130; 213
GSC OF 482
GSC P 43-15; 73-17
CJES 1987, Vol. 24, pp. 2279-2291
GCNL #6,#34,#53, 1986

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