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MINFILE No  104J 052
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name VOWEL CREEK Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104J088
Status Past Producer NTS Map 104J16W
Latitude 058º 48' 54'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 27' 20'' Northing 6520366
Easting 415931
Commodities Gold Deposit Types C02 : Buried-channel placers
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

Gold production was recorded from Vowel Creek, a tributary to Thibert Creek, located about 20 kilometres west of the north end of Dease Lake.

The creek drains an area underlain by greywacke, slate and chert of the Mississippian-Triassic Kedahda Formation (Cache Creek Complex) and Pleistocene and Recent glacial and glacio-fluvial deposits.
Bibliography
EMPR BULL *28, pp. 57,61
EMPR PF (104J General File - Claim map 73M, Dec. 1970)
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 21-1962; 1418A; 1712A; 1713A
GSC SUM RPT 1925 Part A, pp. 33A-99A
GSC P 68-48
GSC OF 707; 2779
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