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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Aug-1991 by Mary McLean (MM)

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NMI
Name BEN, AXE Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J068
Status Showing NTS Map 092J09W, 092J10E
Latitude 050º 41' 30'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 29' 45'' Northing 5615659
Easting 535611
Commodities Gold, Molybdenum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River, Cadwallader
Capsule Geology

Foliated greenstone of the Upper Triassic Pioneer Formation Cadwallader Group is faulted against metasediments consisting of meta-argillite and quartzite of the Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group). Trending north along the faulted contact lies a sinuous body of Permian and older serpentinized peridotite of the President Ultramafics, and diorite and granodiorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton.

Narrow, 2 to 20 centimetre wide, vuggy quartz veins trend north-northeast and crosscut all rock types. Disseminated pyrite is common and forms intense gossans in the granodiorite. All veins carry minor amounts of pyrrhotite and molybdenite. Along the north side of the periodotite-serpentinite intrusion, quartz veins carrying mariposite and carbonate-talc alteration occurs.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 9259, 9926
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 93-130; 1988, pp. 105-152; 1989, pp. 45-72; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10
GSC OF 482
GSC P 77-2 (Sample GSC 76-50)
EMPR PFD 672215, 675747

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