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File Created: 05-Aug-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  13-Sep-2024 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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Name LUCKY LORN 3, LORN A, BJB, SLUICE BOX, SLUICE Mining Division Clinton, Lillooet
BCGS Map 092O005
Status Showing NTS Map 092O03E
Latitude 051º 05' 09'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 11' 18'' Northing 5659387
Easting 486809
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Cadwallader, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Lucky Lorn 3 (Lorn A) occurrence is located within the southwestern headwaters of Big Creek, at an elevation of 2235 metes and approximately 1.8 kilometres northeast of Mount Warner. The showing is approximately 138 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, B.C.

The area is underlain by andesite, volcanic breccia and tuff of the Upper Cretaceous Powell Creek Formation. Hornblende-biotite quartz monzonite and quartz diorite of the Tertiary Lorna Lake stock crosscut the volcanic rocks. To the east, undivided sedimentary rocks of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Relay Mountain Group and the Lower Cretaceous Taylor Creek group are exposed.

Locally, pyrite-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite mineralization occurs in several places along the intrusive contact and lesser so within the plutonic and volcanic rocks. Malachite, azurite, chrysocolla, and bornite occur primarily in the volcanic rocks. Molybdenite occurs locally, associated with quartz and sericite in the plutonic rocks and quartz-amphibole veins in the volcanic rocks. Trace amounts of galena and sphalerite occur locally with the chalcopyrite. Epidote, chlorite, kaolinite and calcite alteration is common.

In 2012, rock samples from the A zone yielded up to 1.27 per cent copper and 18.8 grams per tonne silver (Sample 904R013; Assessment Report 33203). In 2013, rock samples yielded up to 1.86 per cent copper and 306 grams per tonne silver (Sample LPM012; Assessment Report 34367).

The area was first staked by Phelps Dodge in 1963. During 1971 through 1973, Cominco Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping and five diamond drill holes, totalling 454.0 metres, on the area as the Lorn claims. In 1988, Bond Gold Canada Inc. completed 62.9 line-kilometres of combined ground magnetometer and VLF surveys on the area as the Sluice Box claims. In 1991, Lac Minerals Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and rock, silt, soil and historic drill core sampling on the area as the Sluice claims.

In 2012 and 2013, Royal Sapphire Corp. completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling, a 260.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey, geological mapping, prospecting and an air photo lineament analysis on the area. In 2015, Jet Gold Corp. completed a program of soil sampling on the area.

In 2018, a program of silt (12), soil (759) and rock (69) sampling, as well as approximately 2200 hectares of geological mapping was conducted over the area by Ridgeline Exploration (Assessment Report 37864). This work expanded the footprint of calc-alkalic porphyry style mineralization and alteration within the Powell Creek Formation volcanics surrounding the Lorna 1 Stock. A broad zone of weak to moderate propylitic (epidote>chlorite) alteration halo was outlined, extending as far as 3km southwest of mapped intrusion and associated with highly anomalous copper and silver mineralization (up to 2.71 per cent copper and 29 grams per tonne silver in rock). The soil grid completed in 2018 also has expanded the zone of anomalous molybdenum and gold-in-soil identified in 2015 to the southwest across Sluice Creek valley into an area with moderate to strong clay alteration and silicification.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3850, 5183, 18715, 22312, *33203, 33997, *34367, 35901, *37864
EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 157-169; 1987, pp. 105-24
EMPR GEM 1969-182; 1972-313; 1973-267; 1974-221
EMPR OF 1987-3
EMPR PF (unknown [unknown]: Airphoto overlay sketch map - Warner Ridge area geology - A13248-13; T.F. Lee [1969-09-01]: Report of Geological Investigation of the Lorne Lake Area; Cominco Ltd. [1972-07-01]: Geology Map - Lorn and Jim Groups - South Sheet; Cominco Ltd. [1972-09-01]: Geology Map - Lorn and Jim Groups - North Sheet; Riocanex Inc. [1981-02-01]: Location Map - Taseko Gossan Project)
GSC MAP 29-1963
GSC OF 534; 2207
Carpenter, T.H. (2012-02-23): Technical Report on the Lorn Property with Recommendations for Further Exploration
Carpenter, T.H. (2012-10-16): Amended Technical Report on the Lorn Property with Recommendations for Further Exploration
Carpenter, T.H. (2018-04-23): Technical Report on the Lorn Property with Recommendations for Further Exploration
Carpenter, T.H. (2018-08-10): Technical Report on the Lorn Property with Recommendations for Further Exploration

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