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File Created: 04-Aug-1989 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name LIKELY MAGNETITE, LIKELY GOLD MINING Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093A062
Status Showing NTS Map 093A12E
Latitude 052º 36' 54'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 39' 37'' Northing 5830287
Easting 590705
Commodities Magnetite, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Likely magnetite showing has been described in British Columbia Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Annual Report 1936. In all probability the workings described as cutting this showing are part of the historical Bullion Pit workings.

The showing consists of a magnetite lens which strikes 302 degrees and dips steeply east. The greatest exposed width of the lens is 4.27 metres and surface stripping has traced the lens for 7.62 metres along strike. The lens is hosted in fractured andesitic volcanics most likely belonging to the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Takla Group. The lens locally contains chalcopyrite and pyrite. The fractures in the vicinity of the lens are filled with pyrite, chalcopyrite and specularite. Malachite staining is seen in surface exposures.

A chip sample of the lens from where it locally contained sulphides assayed 0.6856 grams per tonne gold in 1936 (Property File - Lay, D., 1936, Report on Likely Gold Mining Syndicate).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1936-C38
EMPR PF (*Lay, D. 1936, Report on Likely Gold Mining Syndicate)
GSC MAP 1424A

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