MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 103P 236

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	11-Apr-2012	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	MOUNT PRIESTLY	Mining Division	Skeena
		BCGS Map	103P026
Status	Showing	NTS Map	103P07W
Latitude	055º 15' 05''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	128º 52' 54''	Northing	6122773
		Easting	507522
Commodities	Molybdenum	Deposit Types	L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Stikine

Capsule Geology

The Mount Priestly showing is located to the northeast of the Snafu (103P 232) and Kay (103P 225) showings, somewhere near the peak on Mount Priestly about 13 kilometres east of New Aiyansh (Bulletin 64).

The area is underlain by Middle Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of the Bowser Lake Group. These sediments are intruded by a granitic stock of the Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex. Light grey, medium grained, equigranular quartz diorites near the peak of the mountain contain some disseminated molybdenite in fractures.


Bibliography	EMPR BULL 63; *64, p. 110 (Fig.19) EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243 EMPR MAP 8 GSC MAP 1385A GSC OF 864; 3668 EMPR PFD 802087, 670904, 670905, 670908