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File Created: 27-Feb-1992 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  08-Apr-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name LCF Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094C051
Status Showing NTS Map 094C12W
Latitude 056º 32' 53'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 57' 03'' Northing 6270978
Easting 318607
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The LCF occurrence is located on the east side of the Omineca development road, 4 kilometres northwest of the upper Lay Creek bridge, approximately 117 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

Hostrocks are altered greenstones recently reassigned to the Upper Triassic Plughat Mountain Formation of the Takla Group (formerly assigned to Lay Range Assemblage) (Open File 1993-2). These greenstones have been pervasively altered to quartz-carbonate rock along a 50- to 70-metre-wide zone along the Lay Creek fault (Assessment Report 11864), a major structure at least 30 kilometres in length.

Eight trench samples of buff to brown, rusty weathering quartz-carbonate rock (listwanite?) carrying minor sulphides yielded low geochemical results. In 1983, geochemical analysis of a grab sample of rusty weathering, fine grained, equigranular, massive quartz-carbonate rock scraped from the roadbed yielded 6.68 grams per tonne gold and 4.4 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11864).

In 1982, Golden Rule Resources Ltd. carried out reconnaissance geological mapping and rock geochemical sampling.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *11864
EMPR FIELDWORK 1991, pp. 127-145; 1992, pp. 109-134
EMPR OF 1989-17; 1990-13; 1992-11; 1993-2; 1995-6; 1996-19
EMPR GF 2000-1
EMPR GEOS MAP 2001-10
GSC MEM 274
GSC MAP 1030A
GSC OF 864

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