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File Created: 13-Nov-2013 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)
Last Edit:  11-May-2021 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BOER, B-05 Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093K023
Status Showing NTS Map 093K05E
Latitude 054º 15' 21'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 34' 03'' Northing 6015029
Easting 332753
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Boer mineral occurrence is located approximately 12 kilometres east of Burns Lake at kilometre 13.4 on the Co-op Main logging road within the Boer Property.

Geology in the Boer Property region consists of: 1) a Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group oceanic volcanic and sedimentary assemblage 2) the Upper Triassic dominantly mafic volcanic Takla Group 3) the Lower to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group mafic to felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks 4) the Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary Ootsa Lake Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks and 5) the Oligocene and Miocene Endako Group. The region has been intruded by the Lower Jurassic quartz monzonite to granodiorite Topley Intrusive Suite, Upper Jurassic plutons of the Francois Lake Suite and plugs and stocks related to Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary volcanism.

The property is extensively covered with thin (less than 2 metres) glacial till with minimal (less than 1 per cent) outcrop. Ice direction has been interpreted to be west to east in this area.

Locally, a sulphide-mineralized (primarily pyrite with local concentrations of molybdenite, sphalerite and galena) hydrothermal silicified breccia comprising coarse fragments of aplite and andesite in a matrix of granite has been identified over an area of approximately 90 by 20 metres.

In 2012, a sample assayed 0.018 per cent molybdenum, 0.028 per cent copper and 3.4 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 33782; Boer Mineral Property Fact Sheet, December 21, 2012).

In 2014, two angular float samples (LAB027 and LAB028) of veined polymictic breccia with disseminated pyrite taken from the LA zone, located approximately 2 kilometres east of the Boer zone, yielded an average of 0.548 gram per tonne gold, 11.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.121 per cent molybdenum, whereas another float sample (LAB019) of oxidized and clay-altered rock with quartz veining and pyrite mineralization, taken northwest of the Boer zone from the Target C area, yielded 35.7 grams per tonne silver and a subcrop sample (LAB003) of pyritic volcanic rock, taken further to the northwest from the Target D area, yielded 11.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 35218).

In 2015, three 1.0- by 1.0-metre chip samples (GCBR-08 through -10) yielded values up to 0.194 per cent molybdenum, 0.060 per cent copper, 0.920 per cent lead, 0.406 per cent zinc and 11.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 35688).

Work History

During 2012 through 2015, John Chapman and Gerald Carlson completed programs of prospecting, biogeochemical and geochemical (rock, silt, till and soil) sampling and a single diamond drill hole, totalling 26.6 metres, on the area as the Boer property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1963-30
EMPR ASS RPT *33782, 34638, *35218, *35688
EMPR EXPL 1981-280; 1992-69-106
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 475-482
EMPR PF (Boer Mineral Property Fact Sheet, December 21, 2012)
EMPR PFD 670183
EMR MP CORPFILE (Lucky Strike Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 631A; 907A; 971A; 1424A
GSC MEM 252, p. 193
GSC OF 2593, 3184
GSC P 37-13, p. 28; 90-1F, pp. 115-120; 91-1A, pp. 7-13
PERS COMM John Chapman 2013

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