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File Created: 01-Dec-1988 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  15-Aug-2022 by Niel Hugo (NH)

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NMI
Name MOUNT CARTER, PET Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104N082
Status Showing NTS Map 104N13E
Latitude 059º 53' 29'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 133º 36' 21'' Northing 6640137
Easting 578014
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The Mount Carter occurrence is located immediately east of Mount Carter, about 36 kilometres north of the community of Atlin.

At the showing, a minor amount of molybdenite flakes occur in quartz veins, hosted within alkali granite of the Fourth of July Creek batholith (Middle Jurassic Three Sisters Plutonic Suite). These are usually associated with aplitic dikes.

A roof pendant composed of chert of the Mississippian to Triassic Kedahda Formation (Cache Creek Complex), 75 metres wide, occurs within the batholithic rocks. The presence of malachite is common on fresh and weathered surfaces. Quartz veinlets are reported to permeate the pendant rock.

In 1980, the Pet 1-4 claims were staked on behalf of Mattagami Lake Exploration Limited in response to a regional stream sampling program that revealed several copper-molybdenum anomalies in the drainage system of a large plateau east of Atlin Lake. Follow-up field work during 1981 consisted of detailed geochemical sampling and geological mapping which yielded a total of 400 samples.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *9812
EMPR FIELDWORK 1990
EMPR MAP 52 (with notes)
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC MAP 1082A; 1418A
GSC MEM 307
GSC OF 864
GSC P 74-47
DIAND OF *1990-4
Cordey, F. et al. (1987): Significance of Jurassic Radiolarians from the Cache Creek Terrane, British Columbia, in Geology Vol.15, pp. 1151-1154

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