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File Created: 20-Jul-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  08-Jan-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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Name NUMBERED CREEKS, SALAL Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J073
Status Showing NTS Map 092J14W
Latitude 050º 46' 56'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 26' 19'' Northing 5625699
Easting 469079
Commodities Molybdenum, Tungsten Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Cadwallader
Capsule Geology

The NUMBERED CREEKS occurrences are located in a west-facing alpine cirque above Salal Creek, in the southwestern region of the Salal molybdenum property. The site is 2.5 kilometres west-northwest of Salal Peak and 43 kilometres west-southwest of Gold Bridge, B.C.

Locally, southeast-striking quartz-sericite-pyrite veins host fine-grained molybdenite mineralization.

In 1965, a chip sample yielded 0.072 per cent molybdenum over 18.29 metres (Assessment Report 709).

In 2008, a talus grab sample (148775) of 0.2 centimetre thick quartz veinlets with disseminated molybdenum within an aplite host rock, returned a value of 0.276 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 31091).

In 2010, two grab samples assayed 0.242 and 0.299 per cent molybdenum, respectively (Assessment Report 32913b).

From 1965 to 1966, Southwest Potash Corp. optioned the property and staked additional ground. They then completed a program of surveying, geological mapping, reconnaissance geochemistry and diamond drilling. In 2007 and 2008, Paget Minerals conducted small exploration programs to confirm past accounts of mineralization on the Salal property. Work included mapping and rock sampling in the Mud Lake and Logan Ridge area in the northern section of the property.

In early 2010, Miocene Metals Ltd. conducted airborne geophysical surveys over the Salal property. In late 2010 and throughout 2012, Miocene Metals Ltd. completed extensive programs of sampling, prospecting, mapping and four diamond drill holes on the Salal property. In 2022, minor soil and silt sampling and drone photogrammetric surveys were conducted in areas of the Salal property for R. Billingsley.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *709, *31091, 32913b, *33341, 40730
EMPR PF (Regional Geologist's Letter, 1996; Salal Creek Assessment Report Review, 1996; Photos, 1996)
EMR MP CORP FILES (Southwest Potash Corp.)
McDonough, B. (2010-12-31): Technical Report on the Cu-Au-Mo Properties
McDonough, B. (2011-04-02): Technical Report on the Cu-Au-Mo Properties

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