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File Created: 31-Aug-1989 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  26-Mar-2014 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI
Name BAEZ, OBOY, CAMP, RIDGE Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093C079
Status Prospect NTS Map 093C16E, 093C16W
Latitude 052º 45' 26'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 13' 26'' Northing 5845966
Easting 417406
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types H05 : Epithermal Au-Ag: low sulphidation
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Oboy (Baez) occurrence is located in the headwaters of the Clisbako River, approximately 5.5 kilometres northwest of Mount Dent.

The area is underlain by bleached, flat-lying Lower Tertiary Ootsa Lake Group andesite flows, flow breccias and minor tuffs. The rocks are fractured in a predominant north and north-northeast direction with a minor fracture pattern striking east.

The Camp zone as defined by drilling is a broad north-northeast–trending zone of pervasively bleached, pyritic, potassium-feldspar–flooded andesitic flows and flow breccias. Weathering and oxidation extends, on average, to a depth of 35 metres. Within the bleached area are more restricted steeply dipping zones of quartz-pyrite veining, brecciation and pervasive quartz-sericite alteration that are associated with anomalous arsenic, silver and gold values. Silicification occurs most commonly as numerous, vuggy quartz-pyrite druses. Chlorite and calcite occur as fracture fillings. The highest reported values in a 2 metre drillcore sample are 6.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.32 gram per tonne gold and 995 parts per million arsenic (Assessment Report 16962). The Camp zone has been tested by drilling for 300 metres along strike and to a maximum depth of 60 metres.

The claims were originally staked in 1989 to cover a large area of hydrothermal alteration by L. Lee and G. Vernon. In 1993 through 1995, Phelps Dodge completed a program of soil geochemical sampling, airborne geophysical surveys and preliminary geological mapping. In 2008, Takara Resources Inc. completed a program of geological mapping, geophysical surveys and locating historic drillsites. The Baez tenures were allowed to lapse in 2011 and were subsequently restaked by Tower Resources Ltd.

In 2012, Tower Resources Ltd. completed geochemical rock and soil sampling on the property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 15298, *16962, 23272, 23630, 23803, 23804, 24612, 30572, 33526
EMPR EXPL 1986-C323,C324; 1988-A39,C152
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 475-481, 491-498
GSC MAP 10-1957; 1202A; 1424A

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