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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Feb-1989 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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Name STANDARD LOCATION, LUCKY CAP, SIDE LOCATION Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093H002
Status Showing NTS Map 093H04E
Latitude 053º 03' 17'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 39' 48'' Northing 5879193
Easting 589588
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The Standard Location showing lies within the Barkerville Terrane of the Omineca Belt. The Barkerville Terrane is in thrust contact with Triassic Quesnellia Terrane rocks to the west and Hadrynian to Lower Paleozoic Cariboo Terrane rocks to the east. The Barkerville Terrane in this region is underlain by the dominantly metasedimentary rocks of the Hadrynian to Lower Paleozoic Snowshoe Group. In this area the Snowshoe Group comprises limestone, phyllite and quartzite. These rocks have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

Quartzites with some interbedded thin layers of argillaceous schist underlie the claims. Cutting these rocks are three approxi- mately parallel quartz veins which strike at 030 to 035 degrees and dip 75 degrees west with widths up to about 1.5 metres. Early reports indicate the presence of pyrite, galena and visible gold in some of the quartz veins. However, later investigations report only pyrite mineralization with trace amounts of gold and silver.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1883-403; 1884-418; 1886-198,222,236; 1887-257; 1896-556
EMPR BULL *26, pp. 49,50
EMPR OF 2004-12
EMPR PF (Sutherland Brown, A., Holland, S.S., (1956) The Structure of the Northeast Cariboo District, in 93H General Property File)
GSC ANN RPT v. III, part C, 1889 p. 38
GSC MAP 1424A
GSC MEM 149
EMPR PFD 681607

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