MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 104J 053

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

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		NMI
Name	PORCUPINE CREEK	Mining Division	Liard
		BCGS Map	104J089
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	104J16W
Latitude	058º 52' 04''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	130º 22' 13''	Northing	6526138
		Easting	420976
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	C02 : Buried-channel placers
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel, Cache Creek

Capsule Geology

Gold production (1876 to 1880) totalling 10,698 grams is recorded for Porcupine Creek, which flows into Porcupine Lake, located about 14 kilometres west of the north end of Dease Lake.

The creek drains an area underlain by volcanic sandstone, argillaceous tuff and conglomerate of the Upper Triassic undivided Shonektaw and Nazcha formations (Takla Group) and also upper Mississippian-Permian serpentinite, peridotite and pyroxenite of the Cache Creek Complex.


Bibliography	EMPR BULL *28, pp. 57,60 EMPR ASS RPT 18579 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