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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Jun-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104I7 Gem3
Name JADE 6, M Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I027
Status Showing NTS Map 104I07E
Latitude 058º 16' 56'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 41' 04'' Northing 6460175
Easting 518505
Commodities Jade/Nephrite, Gemstones Deposit Types Q01 : Jade
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Jade 6 occurrence is located less than 500 metres west of the north end of Provencher Lake, about 90 kilometres east-southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by Mississippian to Triassic 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.

A narrow band of altered greenstone, sediments and jade occur on a small creek draining northeasterly into the west side of Provencher Lake. A narrow band of schistose jade, up to 30 centimetres, occurs at the contact of tremolite-veined serpentinite and altered metasediments. To the northwest, about 150 metres, are two more jade bands up to 1 metre wide located at serpentinite-chlorite schist contacts.

These showings were first reported in 1973 by Nephro-Jade Canada Limited. In 1975, two short drillholes totalling 1.3 metres were drilled into one of the jade bands; both holes reportedly intersected poor quality jade.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1974-381
EMPR ASS RPT *5100, *5815
EMPR AR 1961-119-126
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. 34
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A

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