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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name BORY, MURPHY LAKE Mining Division Cariboo, Clinton
BCGS Map 093A004
Status Showing NTS Map 093A03W
Latitude 052º 04' 22'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 21' 13'' Northing 5770412
Easting 612838
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The region is underlain by basalt of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group. The Nicola Group has been intruded by the Lower Jurassic Takomkane batholith of essentially granodioritic composition. Small syenitic to monzonitic stocks and dikes have intruded the volcanic rocks but appear to be cut by the Takomkane batholith. These alkalic felsic intrusions commonly have associated copper mineralization within the intrusions or within propylitized volcanics near the intrusions. This mineralization can be either of porphyry or skarn-type.

The Takomkane batholith outcrops at Murphy Lake to the east of the Bory showing while basalt of Upper Triassic age outcrops to the north. Mineralization consists of chalcopyrite that occurs as stringers and disseminations within quartz monzonite and granodiorite considered to be part of the Lower Jurassic Takomkane batholith. See the Murphy Lake occurrence (093A 073) for more information.

In 2012, drilling of magnetic anomalies, located approximately 3 kilometers to the southwest and west of Two Mile Lake, intersected disseminated grains, blebs, fracture coatings and massive replacements of up to 20 per cent magnetite, within tuffaceous Nicola volcanic rocks and within gabbroic and monzonitic phases of the Murphy intrusion. Strong potassic alteration, trace chalcopyrite, pyrite and molybdenite are present locally, associated with leucocratic monzonitic phases/dikes cutting more mafic units. Narrow zones yielded values from 0.15 to 0.28 per cent copper including 15 metres grading 0.18 per cent copper in hole ML12-2 (Kirkham, G. (2018-03-05): NI 43-101 Technical Report Mineral Resource Estimate for the Aurizon South Deposit, Lac La Hache Project).

GWR Resources completed programs of prospecting, geochemical sampling, geological mapping, drilling and geophysical surveys on the area during the 1990s through 2013.

During 2018 through 2021, EnGold Mines Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, soil sampling, diamond drilling and a geophysical survey on the area as part of the Lac La Hache property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3232, 27712, 28777, 29103, 29754
EMPR GEM 1971-130; 1972-330; 1974-235
EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil (Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources (1967-01-04): Map of Murphy Lake (1); Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources (1967-01-04): Map of Murphy Lake (2); Cyprus Exploration Corp. Ltd. (1969-01-01): Airborne Geophysical Survey Map - Electromagnetic Map - Murphy Lake Area; Cyprus Exploration Corp. Ltd. (1969-01-01): Airborne Geophysical Survey Map - Murphy Lake; Barringer Research Ltd. (1969-01-09): Geochemical Survey of Area H and Extention - Murphy Lake; Stokes, R.B. (1969-03-05): Geological, geochemical and geophysical report on the Targ and H Claims at Murphy Lake; Lockwood Survey Corp. Ltd. (1969-05-05): Airborne Geophysical Profile showing Line numbers 12 - 23; Lockwood Survey Corp. Ltd. (1969-05-05): Airborne Geophysical Profiles of Murphy Lake; Stokes, R.B. (1969-07-28): Geological, Geochemical and geophysical report on the Dod Claims at Murphy Lake; Stokes Exploration Management Co. Ltd. (1969-08-18): Progress Report - Murphy Lake - Target F Project; Stokes Exploration Management Co. Ltd. (1969-06-15): Progress Report - Target F - Murphy Lake Project; Stokes Exploration Management Co. Ltd. (1969-08-16): Progress Report - Murphy Lake and Target F Project; Tully, D.W. (1969-10-03): Re: Targets H and I Staking and Airborne Geophysics; Stokes Exploration Management Co. Ltd. (1969-10-07): Progress Report - Target F - Willow Swamp Creek; Sawyer, J.B.P. (1970-04-02): Re: Dod Claims)
GSC MAP 1424A
Falconbridge File
SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. (2012-06-04): Independent Technical Report for the Lac La Hache Project
*Kirkham, G. (2018-03-05): NI 43-101 Technical Report Mineral Resource Estimate for the Aurizon South Deposit, Lac La Hache Project
SRK Consulting (Canada), Inc. (2021-05-11): Independent Technical Report for the Lac La Hache Project, Canada

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