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File Created: 01-Jun-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  13-Jun-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MURRAY, ULTRAMAFIC ZONE, JEN 2 Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093G013
Status Showing NTS Map 093G03W
Latitude 053º 10' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 24' 47'' Northing 5892714
Easting 472397
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The Murray (Ultramafic zone) occurrence is located south of the Blackwater River, approximately 80 kilometres northwest of Quesnel.

The area is underlain by Cache Creek Group sedimentary and volcanic rock in contact with granodiorite and ultramafic intrusive.

Locally, at the Ultramafic Zone, a 2.1 metre wide mineralized zone lies at the contact of argillite and ultramafic units; elsewhere mineralization is confined along shear zones and lenses in the ultramafic unit. The most predominant copper mineral is malachite accompanied by chalcocite.

Between 2006 to 2010, a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock geochemical sampling was completed. Previous work in the area was performed by Rio Tinto, during 1967 to 1970, and included three drill holes, totalling 469.5 metres, and various geophysical surveys. In 2006, a sample across the Ultramafic Zone returned 8.75 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28536).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 25398, 25504, 25911, 25912, 25917, 28536, 30932, 32138
EMPR PFD 670213

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