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File Created: 27-Mar-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  04-Jan-1999 by Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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NMI
Name GLACIER, RAWHIDE, VALLEY Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I011
Status Showing NTS Map 092I04W
Latitude 050º 09' 31'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 50' 11'' Northing 5556914
Easting 583117
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types K04 : Au skarn
M07 : Ultramafic-hosted talc-magnesite
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

The Glacier showing is located in an old adit close to a tributary of North Kwoiek Creek, 6.8 kilometres southeast of Skihist Mountain and 3 kilometres northeast of Klept Lake.

The area is underlain by a northwest trending belt of lower greenschist facies Permian(?) to Lower Cretaceous Bridge River Complex (Group) phyllites and schists. These occur in fault contact with Bridge River serpentinized ultramafics, and Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Relay Mountain Group metasediments. Late Cretaceous granitic plugs and dykes intrude all of the above units.

Disseminated arsenopyrite, pyrite and minor chalcopyrite occur in massive, sugary quartz exposed at the portal of a 13 metre adit in a sheared fault contact between argillaceous phyllite and chlorite schist. There appears to be some skarning represented by actinolite, garnet, magnetite and pyrrhotite present in the zone. A chip sample taken over the width of the quartz (1.5 metres) at the portal assayed 8.84 grams per tonne gold and 0.68 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 10680).

The quartz vein pinches and swells along a 100 metre strike length. Secondary quartz veins cut the major vein. Host rocks are silicified. Phyllites are locally fossiliferous and contain minor garnet and andalusite. The shear zone is 150 metres wide and contains pods of serpentine and talc. Several lensoid bodies of talc have been discovered on the property and minor asbestos also occurs along slickensides. See the Rawhide occurrence (092ISW051) for further details on nearby talc, magnesite and asbestos mineralization.

A one metre wide quartz vein with disseminated tetrahedrite and minor malachite staining is reported to occur in granite (Assessment Report 15311). The location is not mentioned but granodiorite is reported to outcrop to the north of the portal (Assessment Report 10680).

In 1929, a 13 metre adit and 4 opencuts were excavated. Between 1977 and 1982, Aquarius Resources took 273 soil sample, 52 silt samples and 7 rock samples. From 1984 to 1988, D.G. Cardinal staked 71 units and the property was transferred to Westerra Resources Ltd. During this period geological and limited geophysyical surveys were conducted and 51 meters in 3 trenches were excavated. In 1996, the Valley claims were staked by Heligold Canada Inc. to cover the open ground (Assessment Report 25188).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1929-C236
EMPR ASS RPT 6854, 7455, 9542, *10680, *14715, *15311, 25188
EMPR EXPL 1978-E159; 1979-164; 1982-199
EMPR OF 1995-25
GSC MAP 1386A; *42-1989
GSC MEM 262, p. 104
GSC P 46-8; 47-10

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