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File Created: 14-Oct-2009 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  03-Nov-2009 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name GOVERNMENT, G, GOVERNMENT CREEK Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093G048
Status Showing NTS Map 093G07E
Latitude 053º 28' 39'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 32' 06'' Northing 5925500
Easting 530860
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Government Creek area is underlain primarily by interbedded quartz, chlorite, muscovite schist and black graphitic schist, possibly belonging to a Middle Triassic to Upper Triassic to the Nicola Group packabge. These well foliated rocks are intruded by a diorite to monzonite dike which cuts across the property. This intrusive contains disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite along its strongly sheared margins. Several shear zones, containing extensive quartz veining which carry disseminated sulphides were mapped and sampled. One sample (sample 8650) taken in 1986 by Gabriel Resources assayed 0.65 grams per tonne gold and 106.8 grams silver (Assessment Report 15926).

See Jo (093G 004) for a history of the work that Gabriel Resources did on its G claims, including the Government Creek area, in the 1980s.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 49-1960; 1424A
GSC MEM 118

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