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File Created: 05-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  08-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BB, GALLEON WEST Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C058
Status Showing NTS Map 092C09W
Latitude 048º 32' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 26' 25'' Northing 5376582
Easting 393675
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Pacific Rim
Capsule Geology

The BB showing is located on a creek flowing into Botanical Beach, approximately 800 metres north of the beach.

The area, according to Muller, is underlain by a metagreywacke schist unit and an argillite metagreywacke unit, both of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Leech River Complex (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 821). The former unit consists of metagreywacke, 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, a quartz vein hosting native gold is exposed over 6 metres and varies from 10 to 30 centimetres in width. Pyrite is present but generally in minor quantities, although many of the veins have abundant iron oxide stains with minor gossan development; other sulfides include arsenopyrite, and possibly pyrrhotite or electrum. Gangue mineralization includes thin bands of carbonaceous or graphitic material, iron and arsenic staining, chlorite, epidote, and biotite. Gold-bearing quartz stockwork veining is present where the veining trends 60 degrees and 120 degrees.

In 1997, AGC Americas Gold completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the area as the Galleon claims. Chip sampling of the vein yielded values from 0.58 to 104.52 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 25697).

In 2005 through 2010, the area was prospected and sampled as the Yahu Creek, RocDoc and Le Baron 1-2 claims.

Bibliography
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 881508, 881509, 881510

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