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File Created: 05-Sep-2013 by Ted Fuller (TAF)
Last Edit:  01-Jun-2016 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name GALENA CREEK, WILD GOOSE Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082M018
Status Showing NTS Map 082M01W
Latitude 051º 09' 38'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 26' 20'' Northing 5668664
Easting 399385
Commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Monashee
Capsule Geology

The Galena Creek (Main) occurrences are located on the western side of a large south- facing cirque to the north of Copeland Creek. The showing is exposed at an elevation of approximately 1670 metres.

The area is within the Monashee Metamorphic Complex, which is regionally metamorphosed to amphibolite grade, and on the south eastern side of the Frenchmap Cap gneiss dome. The rocks are mainly medium- grained, biotite-feldspar granitic gneiss.

Locally, a massive galena vein with quartz and silicified inclusions is exposed over a 10 metre length and a width of greater than 1 metre. The wall rock is bleached and may be an altered dike. The vein trends from 30 to 60 degrees and dips 80 degrees east. Finer grained galena mineralization is found in the creek bed 25 metres to the south. The mineralization is contained within a shear zone 5 to 6 metres in width. It is postulated that this shear zone is related to the Brews Creek fault. Talus covers the north end of the showing, while to the south it is offset by a conjugate series of fractures.

In 1989, two grab samples (WG 06 and WG 04) assayed 44.50 and 78.20 per cent lead and 0.86 and 0.06 per cent zinc with 880.0 and 1640.0 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Property File - W. Cameron [1990-09-05]: Re: Assay certificates and claim maps - Wild Goose). In 2001, a rock sample (595-R-03) assayed greater than 50 per cent lead, 8.3 per cent zinc, 532 grams per tonne silver and 0.365 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 26829).

The area was originally explored in the late 1890’s as the Goose Chase claims. In 1989, mineralization was discovered by Frances Jenkins, Ruby Cameron and Bill Cameron and the area was staked and prospected as the Wild Goose claims. In 2001, New Blue Ribbon Resources completed a program of rock sampling and geological mapping. In 2012, International Millennium Mining completed a program of soil and stream sampling on the area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 20210, *26829, 33731
EMPR BULL 57, pp. 37,58
EMPR MAP 43
EMPR PF (*W. Cameron [1990-09-05]: Re: Assay certificates and claim maps - Wild Goose)
GSC MAP 12-1964; 4404G
GSC OF 637
GSC P 64-32

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