MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GNE013

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	16-May-1990	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	MONTE CRISTO, P.M.L. 811	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092G098
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092G16W
Latitude	049º 57' 51''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	122º 25' 56''	Northing	5534801
		Easting	540721
Commodities	Gold, Platinum	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Gambier

Capsule Geology

Precious metal bearing alluvial sands underlie a 400 to 800 metre wide section of the Lillooet River valley, 31 kilometres northwest of the north end of Harrison Lake.

These post Pleistocene sands contain gold and platinum in submicron sized particles. A sample of the material assayed 11.56 dollars per tonne in combined gold and platinum (at 1970 prices) (Property File - Kirwan, G.L. (1970) p. 6). The sands are estimated to contain inferred reserves of 22.7 million tonnes down to a depth of 30 metres (Property File - Kirwan, G.L. (1970) pp. 3,4).

Bibliography

EM FIELDWORK 2001, pp. 303-312

EM GEOFILE 2000-2, 2000-5

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

EMPR PF (*Kirwan, G.L. (1970): Monte Cristo Mines Ltd., Report on Property, Lillooet River Area)

GSC MAP 1069A; 1151A; 1386A

GSC MEM 335

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

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

EMPR PFD 7983, 812472