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File Created: 01-Jun-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  03-Mar-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name JEN 1, MURRAY Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093G024
Status Showing NTS Map 093G03W
Latitude 053º 12' 19'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 23' 49'' Northing 5895180
Easting 473487
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The JEN 1 occurrence on the Murray property is located in the Nechako Basin, south of the Blackwater River, approximately 64 kilometres northwest of Quesnel.

The area is underlain by the Mississippian to Jurassic Cache Creek Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks in contact with granodiorite and ultramafic intrusives. Locally, sediments are intruded by the Eocene Topley intrusion granodiorite as evident by the sediments generally occurring as inclusions in the granodiorite. The sedimentary inclusions carry disseminated sulphides, pyrite and pyrrhotite. The granodiorite also intrudes northwest trending strongly serpentinized ultramafic rocks of the Paleozoic Trembleur Suite.

Locally, a vein/shear zone along the ultramafic-argillite contact, with a true width of an estimated 19 metres and a near vertical dip occurs. Alteration from the zone extends for over 50 metres into the ultramafic host. Malachite staining is extensive and represents approximately 1 per cent copper. In 1969, all seven holes drilled into the Jen 1, 2, and 3 exposures of the 900 metre long northwest-trending Ultramafic Zone intersected appreciable amounts of mineralization in the form of malachite. In 2006, one grab sample of oxidized material from the Jen 2 area assayed 1.02 per cent copper, 0.33 gram per tonne gold and 0.8 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 28536)

Initial recorded work in the area was performed by Rio Tinto on their Pantage project, during 1967 to 1970, and included mapping, sampling, trenching, IP and magnetometer surveys. Seven holes (509.5 metres), defining the Ultramafic Zone (Jen 1, 2 and 3) were also drilled to test an IP chargeability anomaly along an ultramafic-argillite contact and copper mineralization in the ultramafic. (Assessment Report 28536).

Between 1998 and 2013, W.E. Poole managed programs of prospecting, trenching, geological mapping, magnetometer and IP geophysical surveys, rock geochemical sampling and MMI soil geochemical sampling over the Murray property. These resulted in the location of a coincident 1750 by 700 metre soil-IP anomaly A (adjacent to Rio Tinto's DDH A-8 - Porphyry Zone) and a 1350 by 650 metre soil anomaly B to the southwest. In 2013, a northwest trending, steeply dipping zone of epithermal quartz stockwork and breccia veining was uncovered approximately 3 kilometres to the northwest of the Porphyry Zone.

Cazador Resources Ltd. completed a 1.2 line-kilometre IP survey across anomaly A in 2015. Subsequently, B. Kreft obtained the Murray property and conducted data compilation along with rock and biogeochemical sampling in 2018 and further rock sampling in 2022.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 25398, 25504, 25911, 25912, 25917, *28536, 30932, 32138
EMPR PFD 670213

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