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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 LE BARON 3 Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C059
Status Showing NTS Map 092C09W
Latitude 048º 32' 23'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 19' 29'' Northing 5377138
Easting 402218
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Pacific Rim
Capsule Geology

The Le Baron 3 occurrence is located in the head waters of Kuitsche Creek, at approximately 500 metres elevation.

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 2006 through 2010, the area was prospected as the Le Baron 3 claim. In 2008, a sample (HO31215) of quartz vein assayed 0.2 gram per tonne gold, 10.35 grams per tonne silver and 0.563 per cent copper (Assessment Report 30112).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 28427, 29228, *30112, 31089, 32321, 32353
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
EMPR PFD 802131

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