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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Jun-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name HASKINS CREEK Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082N028
Status Showing NTS Map 082N07E, 082N08W
Latitude 051º 16' 39'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 29' 58'' Northing 5680804
Easting 534914
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Haskins Creek showing is at the headwaters of Haskins Creek in Yoho National Park, 30 kilometres east of Golden. Chalcopyrite and pyrite occurs in quartz veins hosted in highly cleaved slates of the Middle Cambrian Chancellor Group.

The showing was first worked pre-1914; the workings are filled in (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 55, page 223).

Bibliography
EMPR PF (82N General File - Prospector's map, 1937)
GSC MAP 1483A; 1496A
GSC MEM *55, pp. 222-223
GSC OF 481
ASPG Guidebook, 4th Annual Field Conference (Aug. 1954)

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