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MINFILE No 094C 025

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	30-Mar-2021	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	INGENIKA RIVER	Mining Division	Omineca
		BCGS Map	094C072
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	094C13E
Latitude	056º 47' 11''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 41' 00''	Northing	6296820
		Easting	336084
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Cassiar

Capsule Geology

The main Ingenika River placer gold occurrence is located between Wrede and Pelly creeks, approximately 130 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

According to Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 274 (page 199) "the most productive stretch of the river has been that part between the mouths of Wrede and Pelly creeks". Bedrock in the area consists of Neoproterozoic Tsaydiz Formation (Ingenika Group) sericitic phyllites with interbeds of limestone and grit. Fine gold was also reported to occur in the wash at the mouth of the river (Geological Survey of Canada Annual Report 1894, Volume VII, page 16C).

Recorded production from 1906-1910 was 2177 grams, from 1916-1920 was 6220 grams and from 1931-1935 was 93 grams, for a grand total of 8490 grams (Bulletin 28, pages 43, 45).


Bibliography	EMPR BULL 28, pp. 43, 45 EMPR OF 1995-6; 1996-19 GSC AR 1894, Vol. VII, p. 16C GSC MAP 1030A GSC MEM 274, p. 199 GSC OF 864 GSC P 77-19, p. 3