MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 093O 043

File Created:	22-Feb-1991	by	Greg K. Kulla (Fox Consultants) (GKK)
Last Edit:	05-Jun-2023	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	NITE	Mining Division	Cariboo, Omineca
		BCGS Map	093O004
Status	Showing	NTS Map	093O03W
Latitude	055º 05' 46''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	123º 18' 46''	Northing	6105531
		Easting	480040
Commodities	Molybdenum, Tungsten, Copper, Zinc	Deposit Types	K07 : Mo skarn
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel, Cassiar

Capsule Geology

The Nite occurrence is located in the Swanell Ranges, approximately 30 kilometres southeast of the town of Mackenzie.

Regionally, the area is underlain by undivided sedimentary rocks of the Cambrian Atan Group; mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Ordovician to Mississippian Earn Group; calc-silicate metamorphic rocks of the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Wolverine Complex and Paleogene to Neogene granitic intrusive rocks.

High-grade schists and gneisses, extensively intruded by pegmatites and granitic bodies of probable Cretaceous age, compose the Wolverine Complex, an undifferentiated, high metamorphic grade equivalent of the upper Proterozoic Ingenika Group. Upper Paleozoic andesitic volcanic, greenstone, argillite, shale, and limestone are interwoven with the metamorphic rocks.

Locally the area is underlain by hornfels, biotite schist and garnet diopside skarn halos within metasediments that are in sharp contact with a granitoid stock and associated aplite, quartz monzonite and syenite dikes. The skarns are in contact with dirty grey, recrystallized limestone. Pyrrhotite, magnetite, pyrite, molybdenite, scheelite, chalcopyrite, bornite and sphalerite are hosted in the metasediments and the intrusives.

In 1981, a channel sample taken from a trench through molybdenite-bearing outcrop contained 0.064 per cent molybdenum, 0.08 per cent tungsten and 0.02 per cent copper (Assessment Report 9746).

Work History

In 1976 and 1977, Chevron Standard Limited completed airborne radiometric and geochemical surveys of the area. Three areas of anomalous zinc, lead and copper were encountered.

In 1980, Denison Mines Ltd. staked the area as the Nite 1 claim following a regional silt sampling and prospecting program. The following year a program of geological mapping, trenching and soil sampling was completed on the claim.

In 2006 and 2007, ATW Venture Corp. completed programs of prospecting, soil and rock sampling and trenching on the area as the Carp property.

In 2020 and 2021, Golden Planet Mining Corp. completed a regionally extensive program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, till and soil) sampling and a 4851.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Rider property.

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT *9764, 29357, 39660

EMPR EXPL 1981-112

EMPR PF EMPR PF Chevron (Chemex Labs (1976): Certificate of Analysis - 38782 - Nation River Project U-466; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1977): Sample Location Grid - Zap claim - Project U466; Chevron standard Ltd. (1977): Soil, silt and rock grid for lead values map - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1977): Soil, silt and rock grid for molybdenum values map - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1977): Rock sample grid map - Zap claim - Nation River Project; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1977): Soil, silt and rock grid for copper - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1977): Soil, silt and rock grid for zinc values; Chevron Standard Ltd. (unknown): Nation River - trenching, DDH, showing on GSB topographical map; Chevron Standard Ltd. (unknown): McLeod zinc, Nation River property geology map; Chevron Standard Ltd. (unknown): McLeod zinc, M446 sample location map; Chevron Standard Ltd. (unknown): Map of South boundary of Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (unknown): Soil and silt sample location map - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (unknown): Soil and silt sample map for Cu - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (unknown): Soil and silt sample map for U - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (unknown): Soil and silt sample map for Pb - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1977): Topographical map of Traverse No. GL-77-2 showing geology and forest cover - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1977): Aerial Geophysics Map - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1977): Topographic map showing Traverse No. GL-77-01 - Zap claim; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1976): U446 follow-up survey 1976 map and overlays; R. King (unknown): Field notes on Traverse GL-46 - Zap claim; J. Gajda (1976): Notes on Nation River Project; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1976): Notes on Cu, Zn, and Mo values in Nation River; K. Bright (1976): Letter to George Laforme re Nation River heavy mineral fraction; Unknown (1976): Field notes IV - Nation River Project; H. Johnson (1976): Field notes on C446 - Zap claims; R. Faulkner (1977): Field Notes II - Nation River Project; GSB (1976): Nation River - geological map; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1976): Certificate of Analysis - SP 1176; R. Faulkner (1977): Field notes III - Nation River; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1976): 1976 sample sites shown on GSB geological map; R. Faulkner (1977): Geochemical soil survey data sheets; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1976): Topographic map showing traverse and warm spots; R. Faulkner (1976): Field notes of Nation River Project; Chevron Standard Ltd. (1976): 1976 sample sites shown on GSC geological map)

GSC MAP 1634A

GSC MEM 425

Walus, A.A. (2008-03-12): National Instrument 43-101F1 Technical Report on Carp Property

EMPR PFD 840251, 840266, 840250, 840224, 840230, 840249, 860433, 840227, 840241, 840242, 840243, 840255, 840252, 840256, 840257, 840262, 840261, 840259, 840260, 840284, 840235, 840233, 840232, 840253, 840264, 840271, 840269, 840272, 840273, 840275, 840274, 840268, 840258, 840267, 840236, 840229, 840278, 840279, 840226, 840228, 840277, 840225, 840276, 841054, 841055, 841056, 841057, 841746, 841747, 841748, 841749, 841750, 841751, 841752, 841753, 842836, 842837, 842838, 842839, 842840, 843031