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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Jul-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name MOSQUITO, BUG, MAX Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M082
Status Showing NTS Map 082M13E
Latitude 051º 51' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 40' 24'' Northing 5748661
Easting 315911
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by rocks of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. The rocks comprise granite gneiss, biotite-muscovite-quartz schist, amphibolite, mus- covite-chlorite schist and marble. They are interbedded in layers from 1 to 15 metres thick and strike north to northwesterly and dip from vertical to 35 degrees east. Quartz-feldspar pegmatite and quartz-diorite are both conformable to and disruptive of the normal bedding and schistosity.

Sulphide mineralization, consisting of disseminations, blebs and layers of pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, occurs within amphibolite and schists. Within the amphibolite, chalcopyrite occurs with epidote and magnetite in locally rich pods up to 10 metres long by 3 metres across. A 10 metre wide chip sample of the main showing assayed 0.24 per cent copper, 2.4 grams per tonne silver and 0.17 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 5836).

Intermittent sulphide mineralization occurs over a 500 metre strike length in a north northwest direction. Molybdenite is noted in a few localities in pegmatite dykes.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 5189, *5836, *6071, 7561, *11093
EMPR EXPL 1976-E74; 1979-117,118; 1982-123,124
GSC MAP 48-1963
GSC OF 637
EMPR PFD 4998

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