MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082M 081

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	10-Aug-2007	by	Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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		NMI	082M9 Au10
Name	MCCULLOCK CR	Mining Division	Revelstoke
		BCGS Map	082M068
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082M09W
Latitude	051º 41' 20''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	118º 27' 34''	Northing	5727445
		Easting	399118
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Kootenay

Capsule Geology

Underlying rocks in the area belong to the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group. They consist of calcareous pelitic schists, amphibolites, marbles and quartzites.

Gold occurs in quartz veins around the heads of McCulloch and Graham creeks. These veins are thought to have been the source of the placer gold. The placer gold occurs as coarse grains and nuggets close to the bedrock and as fine colours in the gravels and surface sort. The gold is also angular and slightly porous.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1885-499; 1886-204; 1887-268; 1889-267,279; 1890-356,

363; 1893-1043; 1894-743; 1895-690; 1896-535; 1898-1057,1061;

1901-139; 1904-115-116; 1906-149-150; 1908-91; 1912-K143;

1917-151,193; 1924-204; 1925-259; 1926-270; 1928-311; 1929-

330; 1931-147; 1934-E34; 1939-A110; 1940-97; 1950-105-106;

1960-85

EMPR ASS RPT 10393, Appendix, 1

EMPR BULL 20, Part II, p. 17; 21, p. 23; 28, pp. 52-54, Fig. 3

EMPR EXPL 1982-121; 1983-164-165; 1984-128-129

EMPR MAP 25

GSC ANN RPT 1887-88, V. III, Part II, pp. 133R-134R

GSC MAP 12-1964; 237A

GSC OF 637

GSC P 64-32, p. 34

GSC SUM RPT *1928, Part A, pp. 154,156,158,192

EMPR PFD 4932, 5198, 861544