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File Created: 12-Feb-1986 by John Bradford (JB)
Last Edit:  20-Feb-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name SHAR 7, SHAR 8, JEN 1 Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104O075
Status Prospect NTS Map 104O11E
Latitude 059º 43' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 09' 06'' Northing 6622717
Easting 379003
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper, Tungsten Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Dorsey
Capsule Geology

The Shar 7 occurrence is located near the mouth of Redfish Creek on a branch of McNaughton Creek, in the Cassiar Mountains of northwestern British Columbia, about 144 kilometres east of the community of Atlin.

Sheared, medium to coarse grained quartz monzonite of the Lower Jurassic Simpson Peak batholith is intruded by potassium feldspar-rich phases. Quartz veins up to 3 metres wide cut these late granite intrusive rocks and contain pyrite, molybdenite and rare scheelite and chalcopyrite. Molybdenite also occurs in fractures, in intrusive rocks, with pyrite and magnetite. Mineralized veins trend east and are about 3 metres apart. The mineralized area is 500 by 500 metres, and appears to constitute a weak porphyry system. Locally, potassium feldspar alteration is crosscut by quartz veining. Propylitic (epidote, chlorite) and limonitic alteration is associated with quartz veining.

In 1979, the Shar 7 and 8 claims were staked to cover a stream sediment sampled during the Geological Survey of Canada Uranium Reconnaissance Program (1978) and reconnaissance mapping and geochemical sampling were conducted by Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. In 1980, Canadian Occidental conducted follow-up geological and geochemical work.

In 2007, the showing was restaked as the Jen 1 property and Garnet Point Resources Corp. conducted a soil-silt geochemical survey and a total of 63 soil and 34 silt samples were collected. Fieldwork indicated the Jen 1 property and adjacent areas of interest as a potential tungsten and molybdenite property.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1979-311; 1980-507
EMPR ASS RPT *8270, 8271, *9301, 29690
EMPR OF 1991-17; 1996-11
GSC P 68-55
GSC MAP 18-1968
GSC OF 561; 2779

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