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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Oct-2009 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name STONE CREEK Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093G068
Status Showing NTS Map 093G10E
Latitude 053º 38' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 35' 45'' Northing 5943700
Easting 526720
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
I03 : Turbidite-hosted Au veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The Stone Creek showing is located within an area considered to be underlain by the Barkerville Terrane, of the Omineca Crystalline Belt, near its western contact with the Quesnellia Terrane. Lithologies in the area consist of brecciated and fractured white to grey quartzite, phyllite and black argillaceous schist. Pyrite, disseminated and in quartz stringers, occurs within a brecciated quartzose phyllite from which gold, silver and lead values have been reported. Pyrite and chalcopyrite also occur associated with quartz within black clay-rich schist. This mineralization occurs in a 3.5 metre wide zone which contains quartz and calcite. The width of the veins are up to 1.2 metres. A green mineral thought to be mariposite is observed.

By 1929, it was observed that about 15 metres vertically below an exposure of mineralized quartz stringers, a tunnel is run on a bearing of 172 degrees for a distance of 29 metres, but without disclosing anything of importance. The 1.2 metre wide quartz veins occur east of the tunnel and a little higher in elevation. Samples of the stringers and large veins taken in 1929 failed to yield gold or silver values. On the north side of the creek, opposite the above showings, a tunnel had been run a distance of about 23 metres at a point about 15 meters above the creek. The object of the tunnel was not observed.

The area of the Stone Creek showing was the subject photographic interpretation. In 2008, Terracad GIS Servcices, on behalf of North Bluff Exploration Inc, prepared a series of satellite-based photographic shaded relief images and multispectral satellite images of the Stone Creek mineral tenure and nearby area. Different orientations of the light source were used to create shadows which helped define lineaments which would be used as targets for a prospecting program.

Bibliography
GSC MEM 118, p. 105
EMPR AR 1929-190
EMPR ASS RPT 30439
GSC MAP 1424A
EMPR PFD 671218, 681394

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