The Meadow Creek (Plug 8) occurrence is located on the southern side of Meadow Creek, approximately 15.5 kilometres southeast of the community of Logan Lake. It has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Plug (MINFILE 092ISE196) occurrence.
The area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, which are cut by small granitic plugs and sills. Sparse outcroppings of Nicola Group rocks along Meadow Creek consist of altered andesite, lapilli tuff, amygdaloidal basalt and minor lenses of limy sediments that strike east to southeast and dip steeply to the north. Alteration minerals include chlorite, epidote, carbonate and hematite.
Locally, an approximately 0.5-metre-wide layer of granite gneiss hosts a thin, 0.10- to 0.25-metre wide, quartz-mariposite schist that strikes east-west and dips 75 degrees to the south. The granite gneiss is in contact with a chlorite-mica-feldspar(?) schist and basic dioritic to hornblende andesite sills that. The schist and mafic dioritic to hornblende andesite sills strike 020 degrees, dip 65 to 90 degrees to the east and form a southeastward plunging asymmetrical syncline that plunges to the southeast.
The quartz-mariposite schist contains minor amounts of silver-bearing galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. An alteration zone is exposed over a surface area of 32 metres long by 2 metres wide. The alteration zone consists of chlorite-mica (fuchsite) feldspar schist containing a quartz vein stockwork that is accompanied by pyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.
An outcrop of highly pyritic quartz feldspar porphyry, located to the northeast of the previous zone, contains minor amounts of chalcopyrite.
In 1988, two float samples (88-29 and -30) of quartz carbonate mariposite schist with galena and sphalerite, taken near a historical drillsite, yielded 0.605 and 0.482 gram per tonne gold with 165.1 and 258.4 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 18048).
In 1997, sampling of trench-03 yielded an average of 0.53 gram per tonne gold and 76.9 grams per tonne silver over a strike length of 31.99 metres and a width of 0.94 metre, including 2.24 grams per tonne gold and 400.6 grams per tonne silver over 4.44 metres, and 6.14 grams per tonne gold and 1715.0 grams per tonne silver over 0.36 metre (Assessment Report 25405). The same year, percussion drilling (PDH-01) to test trench-03 yielded an average of 0.08 gram per tonne gold and 27.8 grams per tonne silver over a length of 47.25 metres (Assessment Report 25405).
In 2002, Commerce Resource Corporation reports a best mineralized drill intersection of 3.5 metres containing 2.83 grams per tonne gold and 37.7 grams per tonne silver (Press Release June 14, 2002).
Work History
In 1959, an unknown amount of drilling was reported to have been completed on the occurrence area. No results are known.
In 1972, Texada Mines Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping, soil sampling, eight percussion drillholes and ground magnetic, induced polarization and self-potential surveys on the area as the Plug claims. No drilling results are known.
During 1986 through 1988, Western Resources Technologies completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and geophysical (induced polarization, electromagnetic and magnetometer) surveys on the area as the WRT claims.
In 1992, G.F. Crooker completed a program of magnetometer and very low frequency electromagnetic surveys on the area as the JB claims.
During 1992 through 1994, programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and silt) sampling and a 4.4 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey were completed on the area immediately east and south of the occurrence as the Genstar property.
In 1995, Goldcliff Resource Corp. staked the area as the S 1-48 claims and completed a program of prospecting and sampling. The following year, a program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys were completed on the claims. In 1997, a program of trenching and eight rotary drill holes, totalling 545.6 metres, were completed on the claims.
In 2006, Goldcliff Resources Corp. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling on the area as the Plug property.
During 2015 through 2019, Kenneth Ellerbeck completed programs of prospecting and minor rock sampling on the area as the Plug property. The following year, Baden Resources Inc. completed a program of rock sampling, photo interpretation (structural analysis) and a 32.8 line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area.
In 2020, Baden Resources Inc. completed a program of rock sampling, photo interpretation (structural analysis) and a 32.8 line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Bertha property.
