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File Created: 28-Feb-2000 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  17-Mar-2026 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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Name SELLERS CREEK, SELL Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093A064
Status Showing NTS Map 093A11W
Latitude 052º 40' 20'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 20' 50'' Northing 5837091
Easting 611753
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver Deposit Types G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The SELLERS CREEK showing is located on the west side of Seller Creek, a northwest flowing tributary of Cariboo Creek. It is situated between Cariboo Lake and Spanish Lake, 15 kilometres northeast of the village of Likely.

The Seller Creek property is predominantly underlain by Snowshoe Group rocks comprising the Harvey, Downey, and Goose Peak Successions with lesser Devonian to Mississippian Quesnel Lake Gneiss, Upper Paleozoic Crooked Amphibolite and Middle to Upper Triassic Nicola Group black phyllite mapped on the south part of the property. The Downey Succession south of the Cariboo River is locally coarser grained and contains sections of coarse feldspathic sandstone to granule conglomerate. The Harveys Ridge Succession is characterized by black clastics and minor dark grey to black carbonaceous phyllite to siltstone. The Goose Peak Succession is characterized by thick to massive bedded, grey, poorly sorted coarse-grained feldspathic impure quartzite to granule conglomerate.

In 1999, Barker Minerals Ltd. discovered a 2 to 3-metre thick bed of sulphide-bearing limy quartzite, bounded by grey limestone. A grab sample from the showing, containing disseminated chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena, assayed 3920 parts per million copper, 1850 parts per million lead and 838 parts per million zinc (Exploration in BC 1999, p. 23).

In 2018, Hawkeye Gold and Diamond had aeromagnetic surveys conducted over their Seller Creek property as well as their Cariboo Valley and 2-Aces properties to the north. The magnetic survey over the Seller property outlined a number of areas of focus for ground-based exploration.

In 2021, the work program on the Seller Creek property and contiguous, Cariboo Valley and 2-Aces properties consisted of geological mapping, rock sampling, pXRF analysis in the field, prospecting, stream sediment sampling, and orthoimage capturing via a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System RPAS). Within the area worked as part of the Seller Creek claims, anomalous copper-lead-zinc samples were obtained predominantly hosted by rusty quartz veins associated with the exposed marble units. There is significant distribution of anomalous samples across the ridges, coinciding with the margins of a magnetic high anomaly. The Cariboo Valley and 2-Aces West claims both had promising cobalt results from the stream sediment survey conducted in 2021. Values ranging from 438 to 705 parts per million cobalt were collected from northwest flowing streams which lead into Cariboo Lake (Assessment Report 40012). A similar program was conducted in 2022 with no significant results.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 38262, 40012, 40781
EMPR BULL 38
EMPR OF 2001-11
EMPR PFD 13681, 883169, 681609
EM EXPL *1999, p. 23
GSC MEM 149; 181, 43 p.; 421
Geoscience BC, Report 2008-1
CJES V. 23, pp. 1047-1061

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