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MINFILE No 103I 050

File Created:	29-Sep-1986	by	Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:	10-Aug-1989	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI	103I16 Au2
Name	DRY HILL, LORNE CREEK	Mining Division	Omineca
		BCGS Map	103I088
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	103I16W
Latitude	054º 53' 14''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	128º 24' 11''	Northing	6082405
		Easting	538292
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Bowser Lake

Capsule Geology

Lorne Creek cuts flat lying conglomerates, argillites and quartzites of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group. Placer gold occurs in drift-filled pre-glacial channels, up to 120 metres depth. Auriferous quartz veins are probable sources for the fairly coarse and nugget size gold, of which one, discovered in 1931, weighed 46.7 grams.

Approximate volume of gravel in the channel was estimated as 1,720,000 cubic metres with about 0.24 grams of gold per cubic metre (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1930).

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1884-table; 1885-501,table; 1886-201,table; 1887-table; 1898-1152; 1899-657; 1900-790; 1901-991,996; 1902-47; 1903- 26,52; 1904-101; 1905-82; 1906-109; *1914-137,138,175; 1916- 92; 1927-65; *1930-154-159; *1931-77-79; 1932-86,87; 1934- C18

EMPR BULL 1, 1931, p. 76; 21, pp. 17,18; 28, pp. 43,45

EMPR MAP 69-1; 8

GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A

GSC MEM 212, p. 53; 329, pp. 69-71

GSC P 36-20, pp. 10,11

GSC SUM RPT 1923A, pp. 42-44