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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Apr-2022 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name BEN 37 Mining Division Clinton
BCGS Map 092N038
Status Prospect NTS Map 092N08W
Latitude 051º 18' 16'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 25' 00'' Northing 5684634
Easting 401247
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Ben 37 occurrence consists of copper-molybdenum mineralization in mountainous terrain 16 kilometres south of the southern end of Tatlayoko Lake. It is related to similar mineralization covered by the Ben 28 occurrence (092N 005).

The area is underlain mostly by a granodioritic intrusion of the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Bendor suite (no longer correlated with the Paleocene Tiedemann pluton) on the northeastern margin of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The pluton contains northeast-striking shear zones, some of which contain lamprophyre or granite dikes. Intruded country rocks are volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Late Triassic to Cretaceous Eastern Waddington thrust belt imbricate zone and Cretaceous Taylor Creek Group. At the contact with the younger batholith rocks, the country rocks are metamorphosed, fractured and impregnated with iron sulphides and veins of quartz, calcite, aplite and pegmatite. Weathering of iron sulphides in the contact zone has formed gossans in places.

The granodiorite contains fracture-controlled pegmatitic quartz veins containing coarse chalcopyrite and molybdenite (Assessment Report 2670). The density of fractures and veining varies, and at least 3 common orientations are present. Individual quartz veins range from 2 to 25 millimetres in thickness.

The Ben 37 occurrence is located in the granodiorite, 2 kilometres west of its contact with Lower Cretaceous greywacke. It is in the most fractured and mineralized area, measuring about 900 by 120 metres, which also contains 4 narrow shear zones (Assessment Report 2670). Channel samples from here indicate that the occurrence contains 0.1 per cent copper, but only 0.002 per cent molybdenum. Individual samples contain up to 0.4 per cent copper and 0.22 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 2670).

In 1970, geological mapping on the Ben 1 to 143 mineral claims by Pacific Petroleum Ltd outlined a deposit extending over an area of 900 by 120 metres estimated (unsubstantiated) to grade 0.1 per cent copper and 0.002 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 2670). Geological mapping was done on scales of 1 inch: 1,000 feet and 1 inch to 200 feet. A picketed grid controlled the 1 inch to 200-foot mapping.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2670
EMPR GEM 1970-212
GSC OF 1163
GSC P 68-33
GSC MAP 5-1968

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