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MINFILE No 092C 139

File Created:	04-Dec-1990	by	Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)
Last Edit:	30-May-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI	092C16 Mn1,3
Name	WIDOW CREEK, STRIKER	Mining Division	Victoria
		BCGS Map	092C099
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C16E
Latitude	048º 54' 40''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 11' 42''	Northing	5418263
		Easting	412440
Commodities	Rhodonite, Manganese, Gemstones	Deposit Types	Q02 : Rhodonite
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Widow Creek showing is located near the head of Widow Creek, on the east side of the creek and at an elevation of 640 metres.

The area is underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation, Buttle Lake Group. The manganese minerals are hosted in the Lower Mississippian Shaw Creek Member (dated by conodonts, Personal Communication - Nick Massey, 1991).

The showing consists of rhodonite in a 46 to 61 centimetre wide band exposed at two places about 30 metres apart in cherty tuff.

From 1985 through 1989, BHP-Utah Mines completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and ground and airborne geophysical surveys in the area as the Striker Property.

Bibliography

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