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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-May-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name MOB 8, AIDA, RED Mining Division Nicola
BCGS Map 092H077
Status Showing NTS Map 092H15E
Latitude 049º 45' 25'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 37' 30'' Northing 5514314
Easting 671058
Commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Mob 8 showing is exposed in the vicinity of a gas pipeline, 520 metres north of the north end of Prosser Lake and 7.8 kilometres southwest of Missezula Lake.

A west-striking shear zone, dipping 25 degrees south, cuts granite and quartz monzonite of the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Allison Lake pluton. The zone is 2 metres wide and contains small quartz-carbonate lenses accompanied by pyrite, galena, argentite, azurite, malachite, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite. A selected grab sample assayed trace gold, 25,852 grams per tonne silver and 8.06 per cent copper (Assessment Report 5082, page 5). A chip sample across the shear zone analysed 145.9 grams per tonne silver, 0.0421 per cent copper, 0.630 per cent lead and 0.413 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 13603, page 6). Two shallow holes drilled on the shear zone intersected fine-grained granodiorite and minor andesite, occasionally pyritized and cut by quartz and epidote stringers.

A quartz vein, 5 to 15 centimetres wide, is developed in the hangingwall of the shear zone. It strikes north and dips steeply west. The vein is mineralized with galena, chalcopyrite, chalcocite and malachite. A sample analysed 858.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.862 per cent copper, 2.589 per cent lead and 1.473 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 13603, page 6).

Chalcopyrite and pyrite occur in dark, fine-grained diorite 90 metres west and 120 metres east of the shear zone. One hundred and twenty metres to the north, chalcopyrite and bornite occur in epidote-filled fractures.

E. Sleeman and Bronson Mines Ltd. conducted soil, magnetometer and geological surveys over the showing in 1973 and 1974. The company drilled two holes totalling 22 metres in 1975. Additional prospecting and soil sampling were conducted by J. Balint and West-mar Resources Ltd. in 1984 and 1985.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *4994, 5081, *5082, 5507, *13603, 14204
EMPR BULL 69
EMPR EXPL 1975-E76
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, pp. 9-13
EMPR GEM 1974-124
EMPR MAP 17 (1975)
EMPR P 1981-2
GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC OF 2167, pp. 93-98
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 16, pp. 1658-1672 (1979); Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)
EMPR PFD 862065, 862096

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