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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 FOX 4, SEVEN SISTERS PEAKS Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I099
Status Showing NTS Map 103I16E
Latitude 054º 58' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 12' 41'' Northing 6092572
Easting 550474
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper, Silver, Lead Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Bowser Lake, Plutonic Rocks
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 rhyo- lite. 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 sediments.

Molybdenite, chalcopyrite and powellite occur in fractures and quartz veins within siltstone above its contact with granodiorite and within granodiorite and quartz diorite. A sample of a vein with chalcopyrite, in the sediments, assayed 0.54 per cent copper and 11.0 grams per tonne silver. A 2 centimetre quartz vein with molybdenite and minor powellite within quartz diorite assayed 0.15 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 8467). A talus sample of feldspathized granodiorite with a quartz vein mineralized with molybdenite, chalco- pyrite and powellite assayed 4.21 per cent molybdenum and 8.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 8467).

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

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