MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GSE012

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	20-Feb-1990	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI
Name	ST. PAUL	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092G048
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092G07E
Latitude	049º 24' 19''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	122º 35' 03''	Northing	5472593
		Easting	530168
Commodities	Copper, Gold	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The St. Paul claim was staked early in 1900 to cover a quartz vein, hosting pyrite and chalcopyrite. The vein cuts hornblende diorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The vein is situated 6 to 8 metres above the waterline on the west shore of Pitt Lake. A selected sample is reported to have assayed about 30 grams per tonne gold and 4 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1900, page 938).


Bibliography	EMPR AR *1900-938; 1901-1121 EMPR ASS RPT 8873 EMPR BULL 9, p. 90 GSC MAP 8-1956; 1069A; 1151A; 1153A; 1386A GSC MEM 335 GSC P 90-1F, pp. 95-107 Armstrong, J.E. (1990): Vancouver Geology, Geological Association of Canada (Cordilleran Section) Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia