MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GNE003

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	15-May-1990	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	BARKOOLA	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092G088
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092G16W
Latitude	049º 51' 57''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	122º 24' 11''	Northing	5523884
		Easting	542900
Commodities	Gold, Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Gambier

Capsule Geology

The Barkoola showing is located 1.5 kilometres west-northwest of the peak of Fire Mountain, 22.5 kilometres northwest of the north end of Harrison Lake. The Money Spinner occurrence (92GNE002) lies 1.2 kilometres southeast of this showing.

A number of parallel fissure veins and lenses, up to 0.6 metres wide, occupy a zone which is up to 7.6 metres wide. The zone occurs in volcaniclastic sandstone and feldspathic greywacke ("greenstone") of the third member of the Lower Cretaceous Brokenback Hill Formation (Fire Lake Group).

The veins and lenses are composed of white quartz containing traces of chalcopyrite, pyrite, and sporadic native gold. Three channel samples, taken across 0.46 metres in an adit, averaged 1.4 grams per tonne gold (Minister of Mines annual Report 1934, p. F16).

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1904-301; *1930-314,315; *1934-F16

EMPR ASS RPT 11796

EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-184; 1984, pp. 42-53; 1985, pp. 120-131

GSC MAP 1069A; 1151A; 1386A

GSC MEM 335, pp. 42-44,192

GSC OF 2203

GSC P 86-1B, pp. 699-706; 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195, 197-204; 90-1F, pp. 95-107

Arthur, A. (1987): Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the West Side Of Harrison Lake, Southwestern British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia

Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia

EMPR PFD 671432