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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  05-Feb-1991 by Carol I. Didson (CID)

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NMI
Name OWL MOUNTAIN, NORTH STAR, IRON MAN, OWL 1 Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J047
Status Showing NTS Map 092J07E
Latitude 050º 24' 06'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 44' 35'' Northing 5583323
Easting 518261
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Cobalt Deposit Types K04 : Au skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Cadwallader, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Owl Mountain showing lies on Owl Mountain, adjacent to a microwave tower located about nine kilometres north of Pemberton. The area is underlain by a large northwest trending roof pendant of Upper Triassic Cadwallader Group volcanic rocks, preserved within hornblende granodiorite of the Upper Cretaceous Spetch Creek pluton.

Skarn-type mineralization consisting of massive magnetite- pyrite-arsenopyrite lens occur in fractured andesite proximal to an intrusive contact. Secondary malachite and annabergite have been observed on fracture surfaces.

Gold mineralization appears to be associated with arsenopyrite and is considered to be patchy. A 1.07-metre sample collected in 1934 graded 4.8 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 361). De Quadros reported an assay of 75 grams per tonne gold from andesite containing disseminated pyrite and arsenopyrite (Assessment Report 15597).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *361, *15597
EMPR EXPL 1987-C206
GSC OF 482
GSC P 73-17
GSC SUM RPT 1924, pp. 76A-99A; 1917, pp. B19

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