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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Mar-2009 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 093M3 Cu1
Name BLUNT, MARY, GYPSY Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M014
Status Showing NTS Map 093M03E
Latitude 055º 11' 18'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 12' 12'' Northing 6117222
Easting 614385
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Blunt Mountain copper-molybdenum showings are located north of the saddle between Blunt Mountain and Mount Seaton at the headwaters of Luno and Blunt creeks.

The showings are hosted within the Blunt Mountain stock of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Intrusions. A pyrite halo is strongly developed within the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group hornfelsed sedimentary rocks. The mineralization occurs in a northeast-trending zone, approximately 2 kilometres in length, which probably extends as far as the Mount Seaton occurrence (093M 025). The chalcopyrite mineralization is associated with potassic alteration, with hornblende altered to biotite. Molybdenite is commonly associated with the copper mineralization.

In 1973, Cyprus Explorations Ltd. carried out geochemical sampling of the Gypsy claims. Copper concentrations were found to vary from 16 to 700 ppm and molybdenum concentrations varied from 5 to 380 ppm (EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil Read, D., 1973). During the same year, a magnetometer survey was conducted over a portion of the claims by Great Oaks Mining Corporation. The survey identified a magnetic low and heavily pyritized breccia boulders were found in the vicinity of the low (EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil Simpson, J.G., 1973).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2529, *3360, 4429, 5994
EMPR MAP 69-1 (#235)
EMPR GEM 1970-172, 1971-188, 1973-355
EMPR EXPL 1975-E146, 1976-E154
EMPR PF (Twin Peak Mines Ltd., Prospectus, January, 1971)
EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil (Property Location Map, Gypsy Claims; Claim Map, Gypsy claims; Magnetometer Results, Blunt Mountain, Gypsy claims; Hunting Survey Corporation Limited (undated): Reconnaissance Map 65-59, Blunt Mountain area; Olsen R. (1965-03-15): Claim Map, Rob Group, Blunt Mountain; Bland, P. (1972-08-17): Blunt Mountain Property Silt Geochemical Analyses; Read, D. (1973-05-10): Geochemical Laboratory Report No. 15-B; Simpson, J.G. (1973-05-18): A Report on a Magnetometer Survey on the Gypsy Claims)
GSC OF 2322

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