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File Created: 16-Mar-1992 by William H. Halleran (WHH)
Last Edit:  15-May-2023 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MT. BOE, MOUNT BOE Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 094G051
Status Showing NTS Map 094G12W
Latitude 057º 34' 04'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 59' 02'' Northing 6381018
Easting 441145
Commodities Zinc, Lead Deposit Types E12 : Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Mt. Boe occurrence is located directly north of Mount Boe in the upper Richards Creek valley.

Regionally, the Richards Creek valley is underlain by Lower to Middle Devonian Stone Formation dolomite, conformably overlain by Middle Devonian Dunedin Formation micritic limestone, which is in turn overlain by Devonian to Carboniferous Besa River Formation shale. This sequence is overthrust from the west by a panel of Stone Formation and Dunedin Formation strata, which is in turn overthrust by a package of Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group, Ordovician Skoki Formation and Silurian Nonda Formation rock.

The occurrence, consisting of two fractured-controlled, irregular-shaped, massive pods of pyrite, marcasite, sphalerite and galena, is hosted within in the thrust-panel of the Stone Formation near the stratigraphic contact with overlying Dunedin Formation. White, sparry calcite and quartz-filled cavities are associated with the mineralization. The fracture-fillings may coalesce into irregular networks of veins.

Work History

In 1972 and 1973, Cominco Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and at least 16 diamond drill holes, totalling 952.2 metres, on the area as the Ric claims. No assays were reported. In 2008, Douglas Herriott prospected and sampled the area as the Red Cat property. No assays were reported.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *4299, 30758
EMPR GEM 1972-489; *1973-471
EMPR PF *(Cominco Ltd., drill logs of the Ric Group, 1972-73; Cominco Ltd., Map of Geology Surface Plan, Mineral Showings and Drill Hole Locations of the Ric Group, 1972-73)
EMPR P 1991-4, pp. 71-88
GSC MEM 373
GSC BULL No. 186, 1970
GSC OF 606
EMPR PFD 7959, 675819

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