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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Jul-1992 by Fil Ferri (FF)

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NMI
Name JORDI Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093N058
Status Showing NTS Map 093N09W
Latitude 055º 31' 09'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 24' 15'' Northing 6153462
Easting 411344
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Jordi occurrence is located approximately 2 kilometres northeast of Mount Gillis, on a steep, north-facing slope (Assessment Report 9860).

Regionally, this occurrence is hosted within the Germansen batholith, a middle-Late Cretaceous multiphase granitic intrusion. Small rafts of hornfelsed Middle-Upper Triassic Slate Creek Formation argillites, belonging to the Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic Takla Group, are common in the area.

Molybdenite is found in a feldspar-quartz-muscovite vein hosted by biotite monzonite of the Germansen batholith. This vein occurs near the contact between the intrusions and the basal argillites of the Slate Creek Formation. It occurs just below a large raft of hornfelsed argillite which is highly oxidized. Other phases of the batholith include diorite and granodiorite. Cutting both the batholith and country rocks are dikes of light coloured feldspar porphyry up to 20 metres wide.

The mineralized veins vary in size from 5 centimetres to 3 metres wide and contain feldspar, quartz, muscovite, apatite and sphene. A sample in 1981 analysed 0.268 per cent molybdenum and a trace of zinc (Assessment Report 9860).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 8117, *9860
EMPR EXPL 1981-138
EMPR BULL 70; *91
EMPR FIELDWORK *1987, pp. 169-180; 1991, pp. 119-126
EMPR OF 1988-12
GSC MEM 252
GSC MAP 876A; 971A; 1424A; 5249G
GSC P 41-5; 42-2; 45-9; 75-33
EMPR PFD 681515

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