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File Created: 03-Mar-1987 by Mary McLean (MM)
Last Edit:  10-Sep-1991 by Mary McLean (MM)

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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
Capsule Geology

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 dyke surrounded by a pyrite/gypsum halo. Mineralization consists of pyrite, pyrrhotite (dendritic), manganese staining, ferro-molybdenum staining and arsenopyrite.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1934-F31; 1935-F56; 1945-A88; 1946-A114
EMPR ASS RPT 8293, 8954, *11139, 12607, *14344
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 GEOLOGY 1975-G58
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 MEM 130; 213
GSC MAP 431A
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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