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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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Name GALLEON 4-7, GALLEON 4-8, PAYZANT CREEK Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C058
Status Showing NTS Map 092C09W
Latitude 048º 33' 02'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 22' 10'' Northing 5378400
Easting 398938
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Pacific Rim
Capsule Geology

The Galleon 4-7 occurrence is located in the head waters of Payzant Creek, approximately 2.5 kilometres south east of Port Renfew.

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, gold-bearing quartz-arsenopyrite (-pyrite) veins trend from 60 to 70 degrees are exposed on a logging road. The veins vary in thickness from 2 to 45 centimetres in width and occur in clusters of two to eight veins over a distance of 5 to 15 metres.

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 veins assayed up to 2.88 grams per tonne gold (sample G4-8-1; Assessment Report 25697).

In 2005 through 2010, the area was prospected and sampled as the Yahu Creek, RocDoc and Le Baron 1-2 claims. A sample (I) of quartz vein, taken approximately 350 metres to the south east of the previous samples, assayed 1.57 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 29758).

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

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