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File Created: 26-Mar-1986 by Gary R. Foye (GRF)
Last Edit:  27-Jan-1989 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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NMI 093B1 Ni2
Name WILLIAMS, CARIBOO NICKEL Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093B020
Status Showing NTS Map 093B01E
Latitude 052º 07' 15'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 02' 05'' Northing 5774917
Easting 566088
Commodities Nickel, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by poorly exposed rocks of the Cache Creek which, in the Williams Lake region, consists mainly of mafic metavolcanic rocks, argillaceous metasediments and ultramafic bodies, now sheared and altered. The property is located adjacent to the eastern end of Williams Lake 6.4 kilometres east of town and is underlain by the Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group which, to the west and east, are covered by Tertiary volcanic rocks and sediments. Pleistocene till covers much of the area to the north.

In this area serpentinite is in shear contact with underlying limestone. This shear zone strikes to the northeast and dips to the northwest. Within the shear zone is ankerite, calcite and minor pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite and a green mineral of low nickel content (?mariposite). A sample from the shear zone assayed 0.15 per cent nickel while the overlying serpentinite assayed 0.23 per cent nickel (Annual Report 1935 p. C32).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1935-C32
EMR MP RESFILE MR-NI-301.00 (BC)
GSC MAP 12-1959; 1424A
EMPR PFD 672028

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