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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name DELURE CREEK, DELOIRE CREEK Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104J090
Status Past Producer NTS Map 104J16E
Latitude 058º 48' 45'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 09' 24'' Northing 6519751
Easting 433188
Commodities Gold Deposit Types C02 : Buried-channel placers
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

Gold production totalling 13 kilograms is recorded for Delure Creek (also known as Deloire Creek), which flows north into Thibert Creek, located about 3 kilometres west of the north end of Dease Lake. Most production came prior to 1910 but some work also occurred up to about 1940.

The creek drains an area underlain by greywacke, slate, chert and undivided sediments and volcanics of the Mississippian-Triassic Kedahda Formation (Cache Creek Complex). Locally, upper Mississippian-Permian Cache Creek Complex serpentinite, peridotite and pyroxenite occur. A narrow, deep rock canyon extends for approximately 1066 metres up from the mouth of the creek. Above the upper end of the canyon the valley widens with a low gradient for about 1600 metres, where another rock canyon begins. In this part of the flat area the cover is 6 to possibly 12 metres deep. A buried channel of the creek probably extends from the lower end of the wide, flat part of the creek, through to the valley of Thibert Creek. The channel is filled with glacial drift to a maximum depth of about 60 metres (Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1925 Part A, page 68A).

Some mining was done on the creek in the early days and several shafts were sunk to mine the ground in the flat area above the canyon, but without much success. Several tunnels were driven into the south bank of Thibert Creek to try to find the outlet of the buried channel into Thibert Creek valley.

In 2000, Netseers Internet Corp. attempted to find the source of the Thibert Creek placers and possibly the Keystone showing (104J 012). The company completed detailed mapping and sampling of the placer workings at Delure Creek, Five Mile Gulch, Boulder Creek (104J 054) and Berry Creek (104J 007) with the attempt to locate possible sources of gold mineralization within the workings. A total of 90 soil samples were taken in a total of eleven lines which were intended to bracket the areas of the workings and locate possible sources of mineralization.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 28, pp. 57,58
EMPR AR 1907-L55; 1908-J53,J54; 1911-K62; 1912-K63; 1913-K76; 1915-K68; 1917-F82; 1922-N88; 1921-G74,G75; 1925-A111,A112; 1933-A63
EMPR PF (104J General File - Claim map 73M, Dec. 1970)
EMPR ASS RPT 26328
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC SUM RPT *1925 Part A, pp. 33A-99A
GSC P 68-48
GSC OF 707; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 21-1962; 1418A; 1712A; 1713A

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