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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Sep-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name GOLDEN CACHE, GOLDEN EAGLE (L.370), ALPHA BELL FR. (L.523), OMEGA FR. (L.522), AMPLE Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J070
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092J09E
Latitude 050º 38' 42'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 04' 51'' Northing 5610752
Easting 564988
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

The Golden Cache past producer is located on the north side of Cayoosh Creek, approximately 3.5 kilometres west of the confluence of Phair Creek. The town of Lillooet, British Columbia lies approximately 10 kilometres to the east.

The area is underlain by Mississippian to Jurassic metasediments consisting of argillite, phyllite and schist of the Bridge River Complex. The dip is generally shallow to the east with local flat-lying structures. Tight recumbent folds and imbricate structures occur with strong graphitic shearing along fold limbs, occasionally intruded by narrow felsic dikes. Quartz veins are irregularly distributed and follow the local schistosity.

The Golden Cache adits (five in all) follow flat-lying lenses, up to 3 metres thick, hosted in chlorite-talc schist striking northwest and dipping 17 degrees east. Scattered pyrite, arsenopyrite and native gold occur in both quartz and wallrock.

Other workings, referred to as the Ample adit, are located approximately 600 metres to the northeast and at 762 metres elevation, near the eastern boundary of the Omega Fraction (Lot 522) claim. These expose an irregular quartz vein averaging 1 metre in width. The vein contains abundant arsenopyrite with native gold and follows bedding in argillite that dips 18 degrees north.

In 1934, diamond drill hole no.1 is reported to have yielded up to 5.8 grams per tonne gold and 6.8 grams per tonne silver over 1.2 metres (Property File - A. McLeod [1934-10-12]: Progress Report - Tunnel on Bonanza Group). While a sample from a mineralized lens exposed by a tunnel assayed 3.8 grams per tonne gold over 0.9 metres (Property File - S.J. Schofield [1935-06-25]: Reports on the Property of the Bonanza Cache Gold Mines Ltd. - Cayoosh Creek).

In 1983, samples assayed up to 7.2 grams gold per tonne gold (Assessment Report 12571).

Between 1897 and 1901, the mine produced 2788 tonnes of ore averaging 8.12 grams of gold per tonne for a total recovery of 23 kilograms of gold (Assessment Report 12571). There has been some confusion in past records between the Golden Cache and the Ample (MINFILE 092JNE069) occurrences. Production figures are listed for the Golden Cache, although they have been previously listed under the Ample, and are thought to refer to the ‘Ample’ adit located on the Omega Fraction (Lot 522) claim. In 1934, Bonanza Cache Gold Mines Limited examined the area and completed three drill holes, totalling 309 metres.

In 2002, Quartz Mountain Resources optioned the Ample-Goldmax property. In 2004, Canadian Resources House acquired the property.

Bibliography
EM EXPL 1999-33-39
EMPR AR 1896-547; 1897-554; 1910-134; 1929-235; 1930-202; 1932-211;
1933-262; *1935-F6; 1968-162
EMPR ASS RPT 11871, *12571, 14146, 14878, 22154, 23274, *23945
EMPR BC METAL MM00241
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, p. 35; 1985, pp. 303-310; 1986, pp. 23-29; 1987,
pp. 93-130; 1988, pp. 105-152; 1989, pp. 45-72; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR INDEX 3-187
EMPR OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10
EMPR PF (Cayoosh Creek Gold Mining Co. Ltd. [unknown]: Reference Map - Showing Location of Claims of the Cayoosh Creek Gold Mining Co. Ltd.; Unknown [Unknown]: Air Photo - Overlays - A13251-20; Unknown [Unknown]: Air Photo - Overlays - A13251-18; Unknown [Unknown]: Mineral Claims Map - Bonanza Group - Cayoosh Creek; *Bonanza-Cache Gold Mines Ltd. (unknown): Plan Map of Mineral Claims - Bonanza and Golden Cache Mines*A. McLeod [1934-10-12]: Progress Report - Tunnel on Bonanza Group; *S.J. Schofield [1935-06-25]: Reports on the Property of the Bonanza Cache Gold Mines Ltd. - Cayoosh Creek; B.T. O'Grady [1935-08-02]: Report on Properties of Bonanza Cache Gold Mines Ltd.; W.M. Sirola [1968-10-09]: Re: Ample Mine; G. Polischuk [1994-01-01]: Report on a Prospecting Program on the Ample-Goldmax Group of Mineral Claims; Canadian Resources House Ltd. [2004-06-10]: Technical Report - Ample-Goldmax Property)
GSC OF 482
GSC P 73-17

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