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MINFILE No 104P 094

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

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		NMI
Name	GOLD CREEK PLACER	Mining Division	Liard
		BCGS Map	104P024
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	104P03W
Latitude	059º 13' 59''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	129º 16' 06''	Northing	6566034
		Easting	484688
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Cassiar, Overlap Assemblage


Capsule Geology	The Gold Creek Placer occurrence, a tributary of McDame Creek, is located 99 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake. Gold Creek was worked for placer gold from 1886 to 1890, yielding 652 grams (23 ounces). The gold is most likely from gold-bearing quartz veins found in the metasediments and greenstones of the Upper Paleozoic Slide Mountain Complex lying to the west.

Bibliography

EMPR BULL 28, pp. 57,59; 83

EMPR AR 1889-(table)

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 245-248

EMPR EXPL 1989-229-236

EMPR OF 1988-32; 1996-11

EMPR PF (Wilms, R.G. (1955): The Commercial Outlook of the McDame Creek Watershed;(1978): General Report on Placer Gold, Gold Quartz and Base Metal Mining in Northern British Columbia, Canada; (1980): Report, In Part, (1981): Report on 1000 Million Cubic Yards of Placer Gold-Bearing Gravels in the McDame Valley, Northern British Columbia)

GSC MEM 319

GSC MAP 1110A

GSC OF 2779

EMPR PFD 895005