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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Mar-2009 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MOUNT SEATON, LUNO CREEK, WOLF Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M014
Status Showing NTS Map 093M03E
Latitude 055º 10' 22'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 13' 39'' Northing 6115452
Easting 612890
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Mount Seaton showing is located on the northeastern portion of Mount Seaton, 30 kilometres east-southeast of Hazelton.

The mineralization is hosted within the Blunt Mountain Stock, an Upper Cretaceous granodiorite stock of the Bulkley Intrusions. A pyrite halo is present in the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group rocks, which are locally hornfelsed and are mainly composed of clastic sedimentary rocks.

The molybdenite mineralization occurs in granodioritic rocks and is associated with an early K-feldspar alteration and a later sericite-clay alteration. Molybdenite occurs as traces on fractures, in quartz-K-feldspar veinlets and in quartz veins along prominent east-trending fractures with K-feldspar alteration.

The mineralization shows a spatial relationship to a swarm of feldspar porphyry dikes at the southeast edge of the stock. For more information, see the Blunt occurrence (093M 026).

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1975-E146, 1976-E154
EMPR GEM 1970-172; 1971-188; 1973-355
EMPR ASS RPT 2529, 3360, 4429, 5994, 8716, *9755
EMPR MAP 69-1
EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil (Hunting Survey Corporation Limited (undated): Reconnaissance Map 65-59, Blunt Mountain area; Olsen R. (1965-03-15): Claim Map, Rob Group, Blunt Mountain; Bland, P. (1972-08-17): Blunt Mountain Property Silt Geochemical Analyses)
GSC OF 2322
EMPR PFD 810965, 810969, 810970

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