Extract from MINFILE Occurrences: 082KNW067:
Development status: Undeveloped Prospect
Name: FOSS AND GARVEY, FERN AND EVELYN, FARSIDE, PLATEAU, EAST RIVER, CAB, DOT, JAB, MABEL, FROST, FOX, SCOT, MOLY, FOSS AND GARVIE
The Foss and Garvey occurrence is situated in the Duncan River Valley, on the east side of the Duncan River, 125 kilometres north of Kaslo. The occurrence area is located near the confluence of Duncan River and Stevens Creek.
About 1917, the claims were staked by Foss and Garvey. In 1926, the property was restaked by Foss and Tapanila as the Fern and Evelyn claims. During 1969, Bryant Mines Limited completed 549 metres of trenching and open cuts. During 1970, Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. completed geological mapping, a magnetometer survey, a geochemical soil survey (504 samples) and drilled three diamond drill holes (425 metres). In 1979, the property (Fox claims) was optioned from Sherlynn Mines Ltd. by Amax of Canada Limited. They undertook geological mapping of the property, conducted soil and rock sampling, an induced polarization survey and drilled one diamond drill hole (435 metres). This core contained a 60 metre section containing an average of 0.07 per cent molybdenite (Assessment Report 7848, page 5). During 1984, Big I Developments Ltd. conducted a rock trenching program and in 1986 completed one diamond drill hole (103.3 metres). In 1993, they conducted an electromagnetometer survey and collected five grab samples for analysis.
The occurrence lies on the western margin of the Purcell anticlinorium, a north plunging structure developed in low-grade metamorphic, Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian strata.
The occurrence area is underlain by phyllite, biotite schist, quartzite, hornfels and garnet-epidote skarns assigned to the Lower Cambrian Marsh Adams Formation (Hamill Group). These have been intruded by foliated diorite and leucocratic Cretaceous diorite.
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