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File Created: 23-Oct-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  24-Oct-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name SPANISH EAST Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093A009
Status Anomaly NTS Map 093A01W
Latitude 052º 00' 18'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 18' 07'' Northing 5765032
Easting 685186
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Spanish East gold anomaly is located between Spanish and Flourmill creek, approximately 7 kilometres north of Mahood Lake.

The area is cut by the Eureka thrust fault, separating Mesozoic rocks of the Quesnel terrane to the west from Paleozoic and older rocks of Omineca terrane to the east. Both assemblages have been intruded by Cretaceous stocks, plugs, and dike swarms of granite to granodiorite composition.

Locally, quartz-sericite-chlorite-pyrite altered schists of the Eagle Bay Assemblage host numerous quartz-pyrite veins. These have been exposed in a former logging road aggregate pit.

The area was first prospected in 1999 by D.W. Ridley using newly constructed logging roads and as a part of Prospector’s Assistance Grant (99/00 P62). Sampling of mineralized material returned up to 300 parts per billion gold, 3137 parts per million arsenic and 25 parts per million antimony (Assessment Report 28981). In 2006, the claims were again prospected by D.W. Ridley.

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EMPR ASS RPT *28981

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