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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-Sep-1991 by Mary McLean (MM)

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Name MIX (L.6157,6159) Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J077
Status Showing NTS Map 092J10E, 092J15E
Latitude 050º 44' 50'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 43' 55'' Northing 5621750
Easting 518911
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

The Mix workings are underlain by thinly bedded argillaceous and cherty metasediments of the Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group). Intercalated with the northwest striking, northeast dipping sediments are lenticular greenstone bodies. Highly metamorphosed, massive greenstone bodies a few metres thick are also reported; these are probably dykes "feeding" the main Upper Triassic Pioneer Formation (Cadwallader Group) greenstone body located to the northeast. Alongside these "dykes", shearing and faulting occurs nearly parallel with the enclosing metasediments. A southeast trend- ing drift follows a fissure for 54 metres containing quartz in irreg- ular, small deposits as veins and partial wallrock replacements. Sparse iron sulphides are reported with gold values up to 10.28 grams per tonne (or $6 per tonne in 1937) (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 213, page 107).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1933-272; 1935-G42; 1937-F34; 1938-F67
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, p. 35; 1986, p. 23; 1987, pp. 93-104
EMPR PF (Map by J.S. Stevenson 1"=600')
GSC MAP *431A
GSC MEM 130; *213, p. 107
GSC P 43-15; 73-17
CJES 1987, Vol. 24, pp. 2279-2291
EMPR PFD 11059, 11060, 11077, 673455

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