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File Created: 24-Dec-1987 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  13-Mar-1991 by Carol I. Didson (CID)

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NMI
Name BILL MINER, BILL MINER'S GOLD, LAD'S GOLD Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J087
Status Showing NTS Map 092J15E
Latitude 050º 53' 16'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 42' 28'' Northing 5637386
Easting 520555
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I09 : Stibnite veins and disseminations
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Cadwallader, Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Bill Miner showing is located on the south side of Carpenter Lake between Girl and Truax creeks in the Bendor Range.

The property is underlain by ribbon chert, argillite and metavolcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Hurley Formation of the Cadwallader Group which have been thrust over Upper Jurassic siltstone, sandstone and chert pebble conglomerate of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Relay Mountain Group. Minor quartz diorite dykes, probably related to the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton, intrude these rocks.

Two adits, 140 metres apart, have been excavated on the property. Adit #1, about 30 metres long, was driven on a stibnite- bearing vein hosted by tuffaceous sandstone. Samples taken from the dump assayed up to 0.86 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 16282). Adit #2, 8 to 10 metres long, was driven on a zone of brecciation and ankerite alteration within the tuffaceous sandstone. A sample taken from the adit assayed 9.45 grams per tonne gold and 2.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 18066).

Although poorly described, sulphides in these zones probably include arsenopyrite, indicated by the highly anomalous arsenic in soil samples taken over the area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *16282, *18066
EMPR EXPL 1987-C210; 1988-C121
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 OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10
GSC MAP 1882
GSC MEM 130
GSC OF 482
GSC SUM RPT 1932
EMPR PFD 820414

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