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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  05-Feb-2001 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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NMI
Name BULL MOOSE Mining Division Clinton
BCGS Map 092P017
Status Showing NTS Map 092P02W
Latitude 051º 07' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 45' 55'' Northing 5665606
Easting 656394
Commodities Gold, Copper Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Bull Moose gold-quartz vein and workings are located approximately 50 kilometres northeast of Savona, in the upper reaches of the Deadman River east of the Vidette mine (092P 086). The precise location of the workings is not known, however, Minister of Mines Special Report 1 (1936) describes them as being 4800 feet (1460 metres) southeast of Mister William Uren's ranch house 10 miles (25 kilometres) eastward by road from the Vidette mine. The Vidette mine is located at the north end of Vidette Lake and is accessible on a good-quality gravel road north from the Trans-Canada Highway, 7.4 kilometres west of Savona.

Special Report 1 (1936) describes the occurrence as a 2.5 foot (0.76 metre) wide milky quartz vein hosted by highly silicified feldspar porphyry. The workings consist of a shaft 4 metres in depth and 8 trenches within an area of approximately 100 metres. The vein strikes 340 degrees, dipping 65 degrees west. The vein contains small amounts of pyrite, chalcopyrite and ankerite, with some pyrrhotite and pyrite in the wallrock. A selected sample assayed 0.7 grams per tonne gold. Northwest of the shaft, the feldspar porphyry has been sheared and altered to a buff coloured, paper-thin schist.

No recent descriptions of the occurrence are available and because of the uncertainty of the location the geological setting is uncertain.

Bibliography
EMPR Special Report 1, 1936
EMPR AR *1936-F61
GSC MEM 363
GSC MAP 1278A

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