Extract from MINFILE Occurrences: 092HSE056 and 082ESW138
Development status: Prospect
Name: PRINCE, GORDON, FOB, RAD and VAC
The Prince showing is located on the west side of the Ashnola River forestry road, along the Ashnola River, about 22 kilometres south-southeast of Hedley.
A quartz vein, 1 to 46 centimetres wide, in altered volcanics of the Ordovician to Triassic Apex Mountain Complex, has been explored by a short adit over a distance of 12 metres. The vein strikes 064 degrees and dips 70 degrees north. A flat-lying fault truncates the vein.
The vein is mineralized with minor disseminated galena and chalcopyrite. A chip sample taken across a width of 0.46 metres contained 0.69 gram per tonne gold, 13.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.48 per cent copper and 0.050 percent molybdenite (Property File - G.E.A. van Rosen, 1971, page 5, sample 11203). The quartz vein is also reported to carry values in lead.
A quartz-filled fracture zone occurs in granodiorite seventy metres east-northeast of the adit, on the east bank of the Ashnola River. This granodiorite may be related to the nearby Cahill Creek pluton. The zone strikes 025 degrees and dips 70 degrees to the west. Exposed widths vary from 1.5 to 4.0 metres. Mineralization consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite. Two chip samples, each 0.91 metres long, assayed trace of gold, 0.08 and 0.23 per cent copper, and 0.420 and 0.130 per cent molybdenite (G.E.A. van Rosen, 1971, page 5, samples 11204, 11205).
Molybdenite-bearing quartz stringers occur on surface over a 110 by 10 metre area fifty metres northwest of the previous fracture zone, near the east bank of the Ashnola River. The stringers occur in granodiorite and feldspar porphyry. Diamond drilling in the vicinity revealed strong molybdenite mineralization in feldspar porphyry and traces of molybdenite in green andesite.
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