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File Created: 21-May-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name HOT SPRINGS, FRONTIER - GEM Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092G079
Status Showing NTS Map 092G09W
Latitude 049º 44' 10'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 20' 12'' Northing 5509502
Easting 547799
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Gossanous volcanics outcrop over a 200 by 500 metre area 1 kilometre northwest of Sloquet Creek and 14 kilometres west-southwest of the north end of Harrison Lake.

The showing is underlain by silicified and sericitized dacitic tuff of the Lower Cretaceous Peninsula Formation, Fire Lake Group. These are intruded, from the west, by quartz diorite of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Pemberton Diorite Complex.

The tuff hosts veins and fine disseminations of pyrite, comprising up to 20 per cent of the rock. Fine disseminated chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite are also present in minor amounts. A grab sample of dacitic tuff, containing 1 to 2 per cent disseminated pyrite and chlorite rich fractures, assayed 0.540 grams per tonne gold and 13.5 grams per tonne silver (Property File - Carpenter, 1986, p.12, Sample 37691).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 14845, *17943
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-184; 1984, pp. 42-53; 1985, pp. 120-131
EMPR PF (Carpenter, T.H. (1986): Geology, Geochemistry and Geophysical Report on the Frontier - Gem Claim Group of Adrian Resources Ltd. and Danbus Resources Inc. in Prospectus - Adrain Resources Ltd.)
GSC MAP 1069A; 1151A; 1386A
GSC MEM 335, pp. 42-44
GSC OF 2203
GSC P 86-1B, pp. 699-706; 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195, 197-204; 90-1F, pp. 95-107
Arthur, A. (1987): Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the West Side Of Harrison Lake, Southwestern British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 909191

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