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File Created: 02-Jan-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:  03-Jan-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name ICHOR Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J095
Status Showing NTS Map 092J14E
Latitude 050º 55' 42'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 07' 20'' Northing 5641869
Easting 491416
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Cadwallader, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The ICHOR occurrence is located on an upper alpine ridge, 1 kilometre southeast of Gait Peak, north of Slim Creek and approximately 22 kilometres west-northwest of the village of Gold Bridge. The Ichor showing is approximately 900 metres northeast of the Breccia occurrence.

The area is underlain by biotite-hornblende-quartz-diorite and granodiorite of the Hurley River Pluton, which is assigned to the Late Cretaceous Scuzzy Plutonic Suite of the Coast Batholith. This is near the western edge of the quartz-monzonite Miocene-age Bridge River Pluton.

The northwest-striking Breccia Trend of copper mineralization consists of a deeply weathered, silicified, gossanous breccia and several smaller gossans. It has an open-ended strike length of approximately 5.0 kilometres.

Locally, the Ichor area consists of deeply weathered, silicified, gossanous breccia spires in an area of intense oxidation and phyllic to argillic alteration.

In 2019, a sample of the silicified spires (X941263) assayed 1.07 per cent copper and 0.18 gram per tonne gold. The quartz-biotite-hornblende diorite consisted of patchy malachite and fine-grained disseminated magnetite (Assessment Report 38530).

In 2010, Miocene Metals Inc. optioned the property and completed 1227 line-kilometres of combined airborne magnetic and gamma ray spectrometer surveys over area. The following year, a minor rock sampling program was completed. In 2012, Miocene Metals Inc. expanded the MacKenzie property from 36.3 square kilometres to 299.03 square kilometres and followed the expansion with a program of geochemical sampling and a two-hole drill program. Sampling in the west led to the discovery of the Bornite Trend; sampling to the north led to the expansion of the Tillworth trend, and sampling in the northeast identified the Breccia Trend. The drill program focused on the Mackenzie showing, approximately 7 kilometres southwest of the Ichor occurrence. Miocene's exploration focus in 2013 was on the Bornite Trend.

From 2015 through 2018 Carube Copper Corp's exploration efforts of mapping, geochemical sampling and an airborne magnetic radiometric survey focused on the Bornite Trend and then in 2019 focus was on areas within the Bornite Trend and also areas of the Breccia Trend. During this time, two new zones (Ichor and Talus) in the vicinity of the Breccia showing were mapped and sampled. The Breccia Trend was again the focus of geological and alteration mapping and minor rock sampling in 2022 under the newly named Mount Olympus property, operated by PrometheX Ltd.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 31882, 33174, *33341, 34885, 36382, 37311, *38530, *41108
GSC BULL 481, pp. 3-25
GSC OF 482, 3276
GAC-MDD SP PUB No. 5, pp. 223-243
CIMM SP VOL 46, pp. 40-57
PR REL Miocene Metals Inc., Dec. 9, 2011; Sept. 13, 2012
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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