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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-May-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI 092G10 Mo1
Name BOISE CREEK, MARGARET, DD, PITT Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092G067
Status Showing NTS Map 092G10E
Latitude 049º 36' 26'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 44' 14'' Northing 5494995
Easting 518985
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L08 : Porphyry Mo (Climax-type)
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Molybdenum-copper mineralization occurs over a 1500 by 600 metre area on either side of Boise Creek (Canon Creek), 12 kilometres northwest of the north end of Pitt Lake.

The showing is underlain by several elongate inclusions of meta-andesite and associated migmatite of the Middle Jurassic Harrison Lake Formation. The inclusions occur in Late Jurassic quartz diorite of the Tertiary to Jurassic Coast Plutonic Complex. The inclusions trend north-northeast and are up to 800 metres long.

Mineralization consists of pyrite, molybdenite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Mineralization occurs in silicified and crushed zones, up to 0.9 metres wide, and in a network of quartz veins which are 0.13 to 30 centimetres wide. One vein assayed 2.52 per cent molyb- denite over 30 centimetres (Bulletin 9, p. 60). The mineralization is best developed in the andesitic inclusions where fracturing and veining are more intense. Molybdenite is confined largely to the quartz veining and chalcopyrite is disseminated throughout the host rocks. Diamond drilling indicates that the mineralization continues to depths of at least 400 metres. A 1000 metre by 500 metre zone is reported to average 0.10 per cent copper and 0.014 per cent molyb- denite (Assessment Report 12569, p. 11).

In 1967 Carribean Exploration Corporation carried out geological and geophysical surveys and 2265 metres of diamond drilling. The mineralization was bulk sampled by American Canadian Mining Company (A. Hewitt and Associates) in 1917.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1967-67,68
EMPR ASS RPT 1100, *2794, *12569
EMPR BULL *9, pp. 58-61
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-184
EMPR GEM 1970-246
EMPR PF (James, A.R.C. (1967): Monthly Report; *Stevenson, J.S. (1937): Report on Margaret Group; Stevenson, J.S. (1938): Map of Molybdenite Showings on the Margaret Group)
EMR MP COMM FILE ("MR-Mo-301.01 - British Columbia (Boise Creek))
EMR MP CORPFILE ("Flagstone Mines Ltd.," "Cyprus Mines Corporation")
GSC MAP 1069A; 1151A; 1386A
GSC MEM 335,p. 216
GSC P 86-1B, pp. 699-706; 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195; 90-1F, pp. 95-107
CANMET IR *592, 1925, pp. 38,39
Arthur, A. (1987): Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the West Side Of Harrison Lake, Southwestern British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia

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