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File Created: 21-Jun-2004 by Paul Schiarizza (PSC)
Last Edit:  19-Aug-2009 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name NORTH SIMLOCK Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093A084
Status Showing NTS Map 093A14W
Latitude 052º 52' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 19' 10'' Northing 5860140
Easting 613100
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The North Simlock area is near the upper reaches of Simlock Creek at the north end of Cariboo Lake, about 32 kilometres northeast of Likely. Access to the property is via Highway 26 to Barkerville and then by logging and four-wheel drive roads. The property is also accessible by logging roads from Likely along Cariboo Lake and up Harveys and Simlock creeks.

The North Simlock showing is located on the slope east of upper Simlock Creek, about one kilometre southeast of the past-producing Cariboo Hudson mine (093A 071). The showing is hosted by metasedimentary rocks of the Upper Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group, and is described as a quartz-siderite vein, 10 to 30 centimetres wide, containing local blebs of galena and pyrite. Several chip samples from the vein yielded significant values of gold and silver; the best gold value was from sample 800504, which contained 19.89 grams per tonne gold and 39.09 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 18417).

In 1988, Inter-Canadian Development Corp. conducted exploration in two stages at the property. An early fall soil (497) and rock (11) sampling program and a VLF-EM survey (11.5 kilometres), was followed by a late fall trenching program (3 trenches for 435 metres).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *18417
EMPR OF 2004-12
EMPR BULL 34
GSC OF 574; 844
GSC MAP 59-1959; 1424A; 1538G

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