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File Created: 31-Dec-2017 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  05-Dec-2024 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name RANGER 4 Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J087
Status Showing NTS Map 092J15W
Latitude 050º 49' 52'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 44' 20'' Northing 5631077
Easting 518388
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

The RANGER 4 occurrence is located in the western headwaters of Truax Creek, approximately 2.3 kilometres northwest of Mount Truax and 7.5 kilometres east-southeast of Gold Bridge, B.C.

The area is underlain by Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group) siliceous cherty sediments, argillites, limestones and volcanics. This package is intruded by granodiorite plugs of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton and also contains masses of serpentinite. Porphyritic dikes, probably Tertiary, also cut these rocks.

Locally, basalt hosts a 12 centimetre wide arsenopyrite vein. In 1983, a sample (05346) assayed 0.125 per cent copper, 5.7 grams per tonne gold and 14.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12416).

In 1975, a program of rock sampling, trenching and a ground magnetometer survey were completed on the area as the Bee claims. In 1981, a program of airborne geophysical surveys was completed on the area. In 1983 and 1984, Newmont completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Ranger 1-4 claims. During 1985 through 1988, Levon Resources completed programs of trenching, rock and soil sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area.

In 2021, Wild West Gold Corp. conducted rock sampling, MMI soil sampling and a drone magnetic survey over the area. Geochemical sampling at the Ranger prospect, approximately 650 metres northwest of Ranger 4, confirmed high-grade gold mineralization. Two northwest-striking magnetic highs are postulated to be southern extensions of Endurance Gold's Steep Creek and Royal shear zones. (Assessment Report 39702).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 100
EMPR EXPL 1983-315, 1985-C218, 1986-C260
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 GEM 1970-225; 1972-283; 1976-E125
EMPR GEOFILE 1999-01
EMPR OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10
EMPR P 1995-03
EMPR PF (Report by J.A. Mitchell, 1945; Map, J.S. Stevenson; Assessment Report on the Ranger Property by B.J. Cooke, 1986)
GSC MAP 431A
GSC MEM 130; 213
GSC P 43-15; 73-17
GSC SUM RPT 1932, Part A, pp. 57-71
GEOSCIENCE BC RPT 2008-1
GCNL #193, 1985
Sebert, C.F.B. (1987): Description of 22 Mineral Properties, Bridge River Mining Camp, Unpublished B.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia

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