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File Created: 26-Feb-1992 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  17-Feb-2015 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name RUBYRED CREEK Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094C096
Status Showing NTS Map 094C15W
Latitude 056º 55' 38'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 54' 27'' Northing 6310904
Easting 383906
Commodities Copper Deposit Types * : Unknown
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Rubyred Creek copper occurrence is located on the east side of Rubyred Creek, approximately 4 kilometres northeast of the north end of Williston Lake.

No information is available on the occurrence other than that "minor copper occurrences were noted in garnetiferous amphibolite on Rubyred Creek" (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 75-33, page 17). Hostrocks in the area belong to the Upper Proterozoic Misinchinka Group which includes phyllitic slate, chloritic phyllite, chloritic schist, garnet-mica schist, calcareous sericite schist, schistose siltstone, grit and pebble conglomerate.

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1995-6; 1996-19
EMPR MAP 50
GSC OF 864
GSC P *75-33
GSC MAP 1030A; 2-1975
GSC MEM 274

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