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File Created: 08-Nov-1995 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  02-Jun-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name BS, BAGGINS Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I027
Status Past Producer NTS Map 104I07E
Latitude 058º 15' 25'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 40' 10'' Northing 6457365
Easting 519399
Commodities Jade/Nephrite, Gemstones Deposit Types Q01 : Jade
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The BS occurrence is located a few kilometres southeast of Provencher Lake and about 90 kilometres east-southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by upper Mississippian to Permian Cache Creek Complex rocks including metavolcanics (greenstone), metasediments and tectonically emplaced ultramafic rocks. The upper Mississippian to Permian Cache Creek Complex ultramafic rocks consist of peridotite, dunite and pyroxenite which are generally serpentinized.

Several lenses of nephrite and numerous nephrite boulders are reported to occur on the BS claims. Drilling in 1979 described the major occurrence as about 24.7 tonnes of "B-" nephrite in the "D" lens. In 1979, it was estimated that there was over 60 tonnes of jade ranging from C to B+ grade. It was reported (Assessment Report 15940) that mining of the boulders occurred in 1982-83 by Mohawk Oil, yielding B quality jade. Further exploration occurred in 1986.

In 2014, on behalf of 1005046 B.C. Ltd., a structural analysis was conducted on the Baggins property which covers this showing. The work was accomplished marking the observed lineaments on a DEM Image Hillshade map and resulted in the delineation of three cross-structures and two indicated buried river channels (Assessment Report 34898).

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1974-381
EMPR ASS RPT 5100, *7582, *15940, *34898
EMPR AR 1961-119-126
EMPR EXPL 1979-335; 1987-C384
EMPR OF 1989-18; 1996-11
GSC MEM 194, p. 14
GSC P 72-53; 74-1A, p. 375; 78-1A, pp. 25-27; *78-19, p. 33
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A

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