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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Mar-1991 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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NMI
Name FALL Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J063
Status Showing NTS Map 092J11W
Latitude 050º 39' 38'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 29' 28'' Northing 5612194
Easting 465288
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Fall molybdenite showing occurs to the west of Lillooet River, about one kilometre south of the mouth of Salal Creek in the Pacific Ranges. The region is underlain by plutonic rocks of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex, roof pendants of rocks of Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group (or its equivalent, the Fire Lake Group) and Pliocene to Recent volcanic rocks of the Garibaldi Group.

The Fall property is underlain mainly by quartz monzonite and alaskite although deformed andesitic rocks of the Fire Lake Group are preserved as roof pendants within plutonic rocks. Parts of the property are covered by porphyritic basalt of the Garibaldi Group.

Mineralization consists of molybdenite in fractures associated with quartz and sparse pyrite. Weak kaolinite alteration is common adjacent to mineralized fractures.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *5216
EMPR GEM 1971-308; 1972-282; 1973-251; 1974-204
EMPR PF (Report by B.D. Fairbank et al., 1979)
GSC OF 482
GSC P 90-1E, pp. 227-233; 75-1A, pp. 37-40
N MINER Aug.21, 1975, p. 3

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