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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Nov-2024 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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Name 4-TON (L.2085), MARSHALL CREEK Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J098
Status Showing NTS Map 092J15E
Latitude 050º 54' 10'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 30' 51'' Northing 5639126
Easting 534162
Commodities Jade/Nephrite, Gemstones Deposit Types Q01 : Jade
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River, Methow
Capsule Geology

The 4-TON nephrite showing is 0.5 kilometre east of Brett Creek, 1.25 kilometres north of the confluence of Brett Creek with Marshall Creek, and 23 kilometres east of Gold Bridge, B.C.

At the showing, lenses and pods of nephrite occur within serpentinite (probably derived from the Permian and older Shulaps Ultramafic Complex) and its sheared contact with adjacent rocks of the Bridge River Complex (Group) (generally phyllite and rocks regionally metamorphosed to greenschist grade). Approximately 1.5 tonnes of extremely foliated and altered nephrite were excavated but were not of marketable quality.

The Brett Creek jade deposit is documented as the combined Greenbay and the 4-Ton occurrences. The 4-Ton showing is approximately 500 metres east of the Greenbay quarry.

In 2012, Gray Rock Resources Ltd. conducted a geological and geochemical assessment of their Silver Stream property, including nephrite and listwanite occurrences (Assessment Report 33490). The Greenbay jade quarry area was mapped and sampled by Gray Rock in 2016 and trenched in 2017 (Assessment Report 37320).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *4360, 4361, 4362, 5846, 5847, 5865, 5960, 6057, 11967, 18869, 19599, 33490, 37320
EMPR BULL 32
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 93-130; 1989, pp. 45-51; 1989, pp. 53-72;
1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR GEM 1972-598; 1975-E200; 1976-E203
EMPR OF 1989-4; 1990-10
EMPR PF (Prospectus, Caldera Resources Ltd., 1990)
EMPR PFD 11442, 673461, 673462
GSC OF 482
CJES 1987, Vol. 24, pp. 2279-2291

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