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File Created: 31-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  27-Feb-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103G16 Mo1
Name LOR, LOR 28, BILLY CREEK Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103G088
Status Showing NTS Map 103G16W
Latitude 053º 53' 19'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 26' 36'' Northing 5972094
Easting 405141
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

A northwest trending belt of Jurassic to Triassic metasediments and metavolcanics is intruded by a granitic to quartz diorite pluton of the Tertiary to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. The meta- volcanics, consisting of schists, lie west of a sheared contact with the granite.

Massive and disseminated molybdenite and minor pyrite occur along a 53 metre long, 0.6-2.1 metre wide shear zone in steeply dipping interbedded quartz-hornblende schist and impure micaceous quartzites. A 0.6 metre wide sample assayed 1.05 per cent MoS2 (Assessment Report 2706).

Scattered occurrences of mineralized quartz veins occur along a 1200 metre trend north of the above main showing. On the eastern shore of Porcher Inlet, about 2.3 kilometres northwest of the molybdenite showing is a one metre wide quartz band, within meta- sediments, containing irregular masses of chalcopyrite and bornite.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2706
EMPR GEM 1970-98
GSC MAP 23-1970
GSC P 70-41

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