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File Created: 17-Mar-1992 by William H. Halleran (WHH)
Last Edit:  15-May-2023 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name GOSSAN Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 094G051
Status Showing NTS Map 094G12W
Latitude 057º 34' 05'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 55' 59'' Northing 6381006
Easting 444186
Commodities Zinc Deposit Types E12 : Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Gossan showing is one of a number of zinc-lead showings located in the upper Richards Creek valley.

Regionally, the Richards Creek valley is underlain by Lower to Middle Devonian Stone Formation dolomite conformably overlain by Middle Devonian Dunedin Formation micritic limestone. Devonian to Carboniferous Besa River Formation shale conformably overlies the Dunedin Formation strata. This sequence is overthrust by a panel of Stone Formation and Dunedin Formation strata, which is in turn overthrust by a sequence of Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group, Ordovician Skoki Formation and Silurian Nonda Formation rock.

The mineralization, trace sphalerite within a limonite gossan, occurs along the main creek in the Stone Formation thrust panel, near the thrust contact with the underlying Dunedin Formation. No assays are reported.

Work History

In 1972 and 1973, Cominco Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and at least 16 diamond drill holes, totalling 952.2 metres, on the area as the Ric claims. No assays were reported. In 2008, Douglas Herriott prospected and sampled the area as the Red Cat property. No assays were reported.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *4299, 30758
EMPR GEM 1972-489; *1973-471
EMPR PF *(Cominco Ltd., drill logs of the Ric Group, 1972-73 (See Ric - 094G 010); Cominco Ltd., Map of Geology Surface Plan, Mineral Showings and Drill Hole Locations of the Ric Group, 1972-73 (See Ric - 094G 010))
EMPR P 1991-4, pp. 71-88
GSC MEM 373
GSC BULL No. 186, 1970
GSC OF 606
EMPR PFD 7959, 675819

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