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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 092O3 Fe1
Name FEO CREEK Mining Division Clinton, Lillooet
BCGS Map 092O004
Status Prospect NTS Map 092O03W
Latitude 051º 06' 01'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 15' 25'' Northing 5661008
Easting 482009
Commodities Iron Deposit Types B01 : Laterite Fe
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Cadwallader, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Residual iron oxide deposits are common in the Taseko River region of southwestern Chilcotin where conditions are suitable for the development of these deposits, i.e. a source of iron (usually pyritic sediments and volcanics) and relatively stable depositional conditions.

The Feo Creek bog iron showing, 3.5 kilometres southwest of Dorrie Peak, consists of a thin, rectangular sheet of limonite on a flat glacially-carved bench on the north side of Feo Creek. The limonite ranges up to 1 metre in thickness and includes a large proportion of talus rock fragments. The iron was presumably leached from altered pyritic volcanic rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Powell Creek Formation that outcrop on the ridges to the north and east.

A minimum estimate of inferred reserves are 15,900 tonnes grading 48 per cent iron (Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1920A, pages 42A-70A).

Bibliography
EMRP FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 157-169
EMPR AR 1919-N241-N249; 1920-N175-N181
EMPR OF 1987-3
GSC OF 534; 2207
GSC SUM RPT 1920A, pp. 42A-70A
GSC MAP 29-1963
GSC EC GEOL No. 3, Vol. 1, pp. 106-108
Rebagliati, C.M., Titley, E. (2020-05-29): Technical Report Summarizing Exploration Work on the IKE Cu-Mo-Au-Ag Project, British Columbia, Canada
EMPR PFD 13113, 13118, 13120, 800738

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