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File Created: 05-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  08-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name YAHU, LE BARON 1 Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C058
Status Showing NTS Map 092C09W
Latitude 048º 32' 21'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 23' 42'' Northing 5377169
Easting 397029
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Pacific Rim
Capsule Geology

The Yahu showing is located on Yahu Creek, approximately 2 kilometres south of Port Renfrew.

The area, according to Muller, is underlain by a metagreywacke schist unit and an argillite metagreywacke unit, both of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Leech River Complex (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 821). The former unit consists of metagreywacke, meta-arkose and quartz-feldspar biotite schist; the latter consists of thinly bedded greywacke and argillite, slate, phyllite and quartz-biotite schist. Felsic and granodiorite dikes have intruded both units.

Locally, slates and schists host gold-bearing quartz-arsenopyrite (-pyrite) veins.

In 2005 through 2010, the area was prospected and sampled as the Yahu Creek, RocDoc and Le Baron 1-2 claims. A sample (314594) assayed 45.0 grams per tonne gold, 96.1 grams per tonne silver and 2.9 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28953).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 525-527; 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR OF RGS 24
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463; 821
GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30

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