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File Created: 06-Jan-1992 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  06-Jan-1992 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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NMI
Name SICINTINE RANGE 1 Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M094
Status Showing NTS Map 093M14W
Latitude 055º 58' 17'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 17' 32'' Northing 6204212
Easting 606583
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Bowser Lake
Capsule Geology

A molybdenum occurrence (#246) is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2322 as being located in the Sicintine Range, 84 kilometres north-northeast of Hazelton.

The showing is documented as a porphyry-type occurrence hosted in Late Cretaceous Bulkley Intrusions which are mainly granodiorite in composition. The Bulkley Intrusions intrude clastic sedimentary rocks of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group. These are mainly sandstone, siltstone, shale, conglomerate, argillite and minor coal and carbonaceous units.

No other information is available on the occurrence.

Bibliography
GSC OF *2322 (#246)

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