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File Created: 23-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  28-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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Name SVEN, SEVEN SISTERS PEAKS Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I100
Status Showing NTS Map 103I16E
Latitude 054º 59' 04'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 09' 06'' Northing 6093390
Easting 554287
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper, Tungsten Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Bowser Lake
Capsule Geology

Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group sediments are intruded by the Early Tertiary Seven Sisters stock which forms the core of the Seven Sisters Peaks. The sediments are mainly siltstone and greywacke with minor conglomerate, greenstone and rhyolite. Near the stock, they are sharply crenulated and deformed. The stock is largely granodiorite with lesser granite and diorite. Quartz feldspar porphyry is gradational with the intrusive and forms dykes cutting the sediments. Aplitic dykes extend from the intrusive into the sediment. On the northeast side of the Seven Sisters Peaks, an aplitic dyke, cutting diorite carries molybdenite and assays 0.28 per cent molybdenum and 0.08 per cent tungsten (Assessment Report 8467). A nearby siltstone sample assayed 0.014 per cent copper (Assessment Report 8387). A hornblende rich, later phase, of the stock carries molybdenite, with values of 0.0003 per cent molybdenum and 0.10 per cent tungsten (Assessment Report 8467).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 8387, *8467, 9147
EMPR EXPL 1979-256; 1980-400,401
EMPR MAP 8; 69-1
EMPR OF 1991-17
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329

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