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MINFILE No 104P 093

File Created:	12-Jan-1987	by	Mary McLean (MM)
Last Edit:	23-Oct-2014	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	FRENCH CREEK PLACER	Mining Division	Liard
		BCGS Map	104P054
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	104P11W
Latitude	059º 33' 19''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	129º 18' 06''	Northing	6601924
		Easting	482948
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Cassiar, Overlap Assemblage

Capsule Geology

The French Creek Placer occurrence is located east of Edward Johnny Lake, about 132 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake.

French Creek was placer mined from 1881 to 1885, yielding 2.9 kilograms (103 ounces) of gold. The gold probably originated from gold-quartz veins found in metasedimentary and greenstone of the Upper Paleozoic Sylvester Allochthon and was transported northeast by glacial ice.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1881-(Table); 1901-987 EMPR BULL 28, pp. 57,59; 83 EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 245-248 EMPR OF 1988-32; 1996-11 EMPR EXPL 1989-229-236 GSC MEM 319, p. 112 GSC MAP 1110A GSC OF 2779