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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  16-Jan-2001 by Janet M. Riddell (JMR)

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NMI 092P9 Mo2
Name POLLY ANN, BETSY, LIZARD, SOCK Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092P080
Status Showing NTS Map 092P09E
Latitude 051º 44' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 01' 58'' Northing 5735547
Easting 704888
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Molybdenum showings occur on the steep west side of the Clearwater River, 9 kilometres north of Clearwater in granitic rocks near the eastern edge of the Cretaceous Raft batholith. Molybdenite occurs as sparse flakes in felsite dikes, small rosettes in granodiorite, smears along fracture planes, and are also associated with a set of quartz veins which strike north 300 to 310 degrees and dip 30 to 55 degrees southwest.

Southwestern Potash Corporation held 55 recorded claims, including the Polly Ann 1-13, Betsy 1-17 and Sock 7-12. During 1964 a program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling was carried out. Diamond drilling, totalling 431 metres, was completed in two holes.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1964-99
EMPR OF 2002-15
EMPR P 1987-2
EMPR PF (Godfrey, T. (1964): Report for Amax Potash; Sketch map of 1964 work, 1'=400"; Memoranda from J.T. Fyles and G. White)
GSC MAP 1966-3; 1278A
Falconbridge File

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