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File Created: 01-Sep-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  20-Apr-2021 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name LOON, OWL LAKE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093K015
Status Showing NTS Map 093K03E
Latitude 054º 10' 20'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 07' 26'' Northing 6004767
Easting 361365
Commodities Uranium, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Loon occurrence is located on a low west-northwest trending ridge, located to the northeast of Owl Lake.

The area occurs in a region underlain by Upper Jurassic plutons of the Francois Lake Intrusive Suite. These are overlain by Upper Cretaceous to Neogene Ootsa Lake Group volcanic rocks.

Anomalous radioactivity is associated with shears cutting the Ootsa Lake Group volcanics. Mineralization intersected in drillhole 78-2 assayed 1.1 metres of 0.0025 per cent uranium in a silicified and brecciated rhyolite (Assessment Report 7289). A 1.3-metre drillcore sample of highly silicified andesite from hole 78-1 assayed 1.98 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 7289).

Work History

In 1978, Placer Development Ltd. completed a 567.2 line-kilometre ground scintillometer survey and five diamond drill holes, totalling 567.2 metres, on the area as the Loon claims of the Owl Lake property.

In 2002, Minestar Resources Corp. completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Owl 1-4 claims.

In 2008, Optima Minerals Inc. completed a soil sampling program on the area as the Owl Lake property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *7289, 26941, 30331
EMPR EXPL 1978-212; 1992-69-106
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 475-482
EMPR PF (See 093K General file, Endako Area Maps)
EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil ( (1970-09-01): Pole-Dipole Reconnaissance I.P. Traverses)
EMPR PFD 810090, 810119
GSC MAP 631A; 971A; 1424A
GSC MEM 252
GSC OF 2593, 3184
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 115-120; 91-1A, pp. 7-13

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