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File Created: 09-Oct-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:  12-Oct-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name DOIG Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 094A088
Status Anomaly NTS Map 094A16W
Latitude 056º 49' 23'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 24' 56'' Northing 6300668
Easting 657722
Commodities Diamond, Silver Deposit Types N02 : Kimberlite-hosted diamonds
N03 : Lamproite-hosted diamonds
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The DOIG anomaly is centred on a gravel pit having anomalous Ag values approximately 1 kilometre east of Doig River, 70 kilometres northeast of Fort St. John, B.C.

The area was initially explored by Highplain Exploration Ltd. in 1969 and 1970, based on the discovery of highly limonitic sands and shales with a number of massive pyrite - pyrrhotite pebbles and some lenses of white volcanic ash. Eighty-three soil samples were collected over the area with the highest value of 2.2 parts per million. Ag in one of the small lenses of volcanic ash, versus the 0.4 - 0.8 parts per million background (Assessment Report 02910).

In 2002 Diamant Resources Ltd. obtained two glaciofluvial gravel pit samples on either side of the Doig River west of the anomalous area. The primary objective of the heavy mineral sampling program was to generate possible new kimberlitic indicator mineral anomalies. Results have not been published (Assessment Report 27000).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *02910, *27000
EMPR OF 1317
GSC BULL 331, 423, 447
GSC OF 2124, Part 1, 1990a; 2269; 3228; 3441
GSC MEM 425
GSC P 1975-11
CPG BULL V38a p. 25, p.196
Geoscience Canada v.18, n.1, pp.1-15
Geology v.23, n.3, pp.195-200

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