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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Feb-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name NOEL CREEK, ROYAL JADE MINE, CAR Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J076
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092J10W
Latitude 050º 44' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 48' 57'' Northing 5621577
Easting 512993
Commodities Jade/Nephrite, Gold, Gemstones Deposit Types Q01 : Jade
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

Jade has been quarried on the west side of Noel Creek, 5 kilometres south of the Bralorne mine and 62 kilometres west of Lillooet.

Northwest of Lillooet in the Bralorne area, metasediments and volcanics of the Mississippian to Middle Jurassic Bridge River Complex are cut by lenses of Alpine-type serpentinite of the Permian Bralorne Igneous Complex, and by minor dykes of granodiorite and feldspar porphyry.

Two deposits of jade have been reported at Noel Creek. One is a "semi-nephrite" with shredded tremolite, clinozoisite and titanite, and is associated with listwanites (quartz-calcite-magnesite). The other deposit, about 300 metres to the north, is a south dipping band of semi-nephrite occurs between a listwanite on the hanging wall and a clinozoisite-carbonate contact reaction zone on the footwall. Reports on the Car claim, which covers the old workings, describe similar carbonate altered serpentinite and listwanites. Areas of talc-carbonate and calcite-magnesite veinlets are reported at serpentinite-greenstone contacts, which contain small lenses of low grade nephrite. Possible reserves are 480 tonnes and probable reserves are 45 tonnes in rejected 13.5 tonne block-cuttings and boulders (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 78-19). Visible gold was said to have been found in quartz stringers in low grade jade or silicified greenstone, although recent attempts (1981) to locate such an occurrence were unsuccessful.

In 1969, several tonnes of low grade nephrite were cut and sold from the west side of Noel Creek. During the early 1970's Mr. H. Street (owner) was reported to be producing jade from a contact zone between diorite and ultramafic rocks (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 72-53, page 44).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 9232, 9928
EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 23-29; 1987, pp. 93-100; 1988, pp. 105-114; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR OF 1988-3; 1990-10
GSC MEM 130, p. 77
GSC OF 482
GSC P *72-53, p. 44; *78-19

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