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File Created: 06-Oct-1987 by Henry W. Marsden (HWM)
Last Edit:  30-Jan-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name ANVIL MOLYBDENUM Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104P051
Status Showing NTS Map 104P12W
Latitude 059º 35' 57'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 58' 46'' Northing 6607180
Easting 444711
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain, Cassiar
Capsule Geology

The Anvil Molybdenum occurrence is located approximately 11 kilometres west of the Blue River, near Chromite Creek, about 128 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake.

A two-metre-wide biotite granodiorite dike cuts ultramafic rocks of the Permian Blue River Ultramafite (Slide Mountain Complex) in the Tournaisian (lower Early Mississippian) to Permian(?) Sylvester allochthon and is paralleled by a 0.5 metre wide quartz vein, exposed along strike for 100 metres. The vein contains scattered molybdenite, generally less than 1 per cent, and has a strike of 060 degrees and dips 80 degrees northeast. The dike emanates from the Early Cretaceous granitic Cassiar batholith.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK *1987, pp. 233-243
EMPR OF 1988-10; 1996-11
EMPR MP MAP 1992-11
EMPR BULL 83
GSC P 64-48, p. 14
GSC MEM 319
GSC MAP 1110A
GSC OF 2779

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