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File Created: 23-Jul-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)
Last Edit:  27-Mar-1991 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name CARIBOU SHOWING (L.1205), CARIBOO Mining Division Trail Creek
BCGS Map 082F001
Status Showing NTS Map 082F04W
Latitude 049º 04' 47'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 50' 32'' Northing 5436660
Easting 438496
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Argllite, quartzite and siltstone of the Pennsylvanian (and possibly Permian) Mount Roberts Formation host a narrow quartz vein, up to 0.4 metres thick, which contains pyrite and pyrrhotite. The vein is vertically dipping and strikes 072 degrees. A zone of crushed country rock occurs on the footwall side of vein. The vein is crosscut by a quartz diorite dyke striking across the vein at right angles. Gold and silver values are generally low but selected samples grade as high as 30 grams per tonne gold and 144 grams per tonne silver (Bulletin 1, page 123). One sample taken across 0.46 metres assayed 4.46 grams per tonne gold and 106.29 grams per tonne silver (Bulletin 1, page 123). Some underground development has occurred.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1896-557; 1897-570; 1924-368; 1925-252; 1930-280; 1938-A37; 1939-40; 1940-27
EMPR BC METAL MM00649
EMPR BULL *1 (1932), p. 123; *74 (Fig. 3); 109
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1989, pp. 11-27; 1990, pp. 9-31
EMPR OF 1988-1; 1989-11; 1990-8; 1990-9; 1991-2
GSC MAP 1090A
GSC MEM 77; 308
GSC P 79-26

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