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File Created: 07-May-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  20-May-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name FALLS CREEK, LE BARON Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C059
Status Showing NTS Map 092C09W
Latitude 048º 33' 54'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 21' 05'' Northing 5379982
Easting 400299
Commodities Gold, Arsenic Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Pacific Rim
Capsule Geology

The Falls Creek occurrence is located on the western side of Falls Creek, approximately 400 metres south east of the Red Creek Main Bridge, which crosses Falls Creek.

The area, according to Muller, is underlain by a meta-greywacke schist unit and an argillite meta-greywacke unit, both of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Leech River Complex (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 821). The former unit consists of meta-greywacke, meta-arkose and quartz-feldspar biotite schist; the latter consists of thinly bedded greywacke and argillite, slate, phyllite and quartz-biotite schist. Felsic and granodiorite dikes have intruded both units.

Locally, an oxidized multiple quartz vein “swarm” structure is reported to host visible gold. In 2012, a sample (J677873) yielded up to 4700 parts per million arsenic but was not tested for gold (Assessment Report 34061).

During 2008 through 2012, the area was prospected by La Baron Prospecting as the Falls Creek property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 30917, 31902, *34061
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 525-527; 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR OF RGS 24
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463; 821
GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30
EMPR PFD 802131

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