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File Created: 09-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  15-Jul-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI 103I10 Mo2
Name NAR 26, KSHISH, NAR, NEWTOWN CREEK, VANARSDOLL Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I058
Status Showing NTS Map 103I10E
Latitude 054º 35' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 32' 46'' Northing 6049418
Easting 529329
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The NAR 26 showing is located in proximity to 48 Creek, north of the Skeena River, about 9 kilometres northeast of Terrace. The Nar 44 showing, or Kshish, is located 2 kilometres east. The Kshish property currently (ca. 2015) covers both showings.

The southern portions of the Kshish property are underlain by the Eocene Newtown Creek pluton (53 Ma) and the Paleocene Kitsumkalum Intrusive Suite (60 Ma), while the northern portion is underlain by the Lower Jurassic, volcanic dominated Kitselas Facies of the Telkwa Group.

White biotite granite of the Newtown Creek pluton are cut by aplite and basalt dikes. Molybdenite occurs in quartz veins filling flat, widely spaced joint fractures. A rock chip sample (K596) from 48 Canyon, 120 metres northwest of Nar 26, assayed 4800 parts per million (0.48 per cent) molybdenum (Assessment Report 1661).

Refer to Nar 44 occurrence (Minfile 103I 034) for a detailed work history of the area.

In 2012, a late summer work program by Arrowstar Resources Ltd. comprised rock sampling (43), mapping and general reconnaissance. Field exploration was successful in the discovery of a new zone of mineralization in 48 Creek canyon approximately 300 metres northwest of NAR 26, where three granite float samples contained quartz veining and visible molybdenite (see 48 CANYON Minfile).

Exploration work done in 2013 showed that the molybdenum soil anomalies on the lower slopes were transported soils lying on fresh unmineralized intrusive bedrock.

In 2015 and 2017, Barkley Resources Ltd. conducted geochemical soil sampling and further mapping on the Kshish property, focusing on the Newtown Creek area. In 2017 several mapping traverses were undertaken in both the (Nar 26) and Newtown Creek (Nar 44) areas, but access to the 48 Creek canyon was not possible.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1967-53; 1968-68
EMPR ASS RPT *1661, 30453, *33542, *34553, 35676, *37456
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 2007-4
EMPR P 2007-1, pp. 149-162
GEOS BC RPT 2008-11, 2010-12
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329
PR REL Jet Gold Corp., Apr.6, 2009
Burton, A. (2009-03-03): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Jet Gold Corp. Kshish Molybdenum Property

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