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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Nov-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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Name VICTIM MOLYBDENITE #2, SHANNON CREEK, ANTON, NOLY, MALY, VICTOR, NORTH, BOBBIE Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K003
Status Showing NTS Map 082K04E
Latitude 050º 04' 34'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 30' 45'' Northing 5547219
Easting 463329
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
O : PEGMATITE
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Victim Molybdenite #2 occurrence is located 4.0 kilometres west of the north end of Slocan Lake and 4.0 kilometres southwest of the town of Hills.

Molybdenite occurs as blebs and rosettes in veins, quartz stringers and fracture fillings generally associated with quartz, muscovite and pyrite in aplites and pegmatitic phases near contact areas and in marginal phases of the Cretaceous Wragge Creek stock (Assessment Report 8402). The best intersection in diamond-drill hole 80-SH-02 was 0.058 per cent molybdenum across 2.1 metres in a pegmatite. The Wragge Creek stock is composed of hornblende biotite quartz monzonite and minor quartz diorite and granodiorite. A potassium-argon date on biotite yielded an age of 74 million years (GSC Open File 432). The stock has intruded and hornfelsed fine grained sedimentary strata and mafic volcanic rocks of the Triassic Slocan Group. The Slocan Group rocks are at low metamorphic rank and include grey to black phyllite, argillite, quartzite and limestone.

In 1970 (Assessment report 2393), Argem Explorations Limited prepared 1662 metres of line and collected 191 soil geochemical samples which were analysed for zinc and molybdenum. In 1971 (Assessment Report 3004), Argem Explorations Limited prepared an additional 6344 metres of line, collected 178 soil samples and again analysed them for zinc and molybdenum. In 1980 (Assessment Report 8042), Cyprus Anvil Mining Corporation optioned the property, cut 9.2 kilometres of baseline and crossline and collected 1780 soil samples which were analysed for molybdenum, copper, lead, zinc and silver. In 1981 (Assessment Report 9175), Cyprus Anvil completed some trenching and four diamond-drill holes totalling 1042 metres. Molybdenite was intersected at this occurrence as well as at the Victim Molybdenite #1 (082KSW062), located 2 kilometres to the east. A vein containing galena and sphalerite was intersected 2.5 kilometres to the northeast (Victim Silver, 082KSW189). In 1983 (Assessment Report 11646), Shannon Creek Resources Limited collected 168 soil samples which were analysed for gold, silver, lead, zinc and copper. In 1986 (Assessment Report 14947), Silvera Resources Incorporated analysed 226 of the Cyprus Anvil soil geochemical samples for gold.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2393, 3004, 8402, *9175, 11646, 14947
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 1998-15 by Barbara Welsh)
GSC BULL 161
GSC OF 464; 432, #256

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