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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Nov-1999 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name CARIBOO, GOLD MEDAL, KOKANEE NO. 1, KOKANEE NO. 2 Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F075
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F11E
Latitude 049º 42' 13'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 08' 58'' Northing 5505688
Easting 489224
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Cariboo showing is located in porphyritic granite of the Nelson Intrusions. Several later phase granitic dikes striking around 350 degrees with near vertical dip occur. Mineralization consists of irregular disseminations of pyrite, pyrrhotite and small amounts of chalcopyrite and sphalerite throughout the dikes. Larger concentrations of these minerals also occur in numerous streaks and bunches throughout the dike rock over considerable area but separated by much larger areas of sparsely mineralized rocks.

Prior to 1929, the property had been developed by five opencuts, a 9-metre tunnel, a 30-metre tunnel (a crosscut through barren ground), and a 3.7-metre shaft. The workings are described as being an opencut about 150 metres north of an old cabin, an opencut and shaft 213 metres north of the cabin, an opencut 150 metres northwest of the cabin and a 9-metre tunnel about 365 metres south of the cabin. A 3.7-metre shaft is located about 90 metres northwest of the 9-metre tunnel. The location of the 30-metre tunnel was not reported.

A chip from the 9-metre tunnel assayed 0.69 gram per tonne gold, 30 grams per tonne silver and 0.13 per cent copper across 6 metres (Starr, 1929 (Property File)). Samples from the shaft to the northwest of the tunnel and from the workings north of the cabin yielded similar values.

Bibliography
EMPR PF (*Starr, C.C. (1929): Report of a Brief Examination of the Cariboo Group)
GSC MAP 1090A, 1091A
GSC MEM 308
EMPR PFD 2552

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