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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Mar-1992 by Dave Nelles (DMN)

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NMI 092H11 Au6
Name MAJESTIC, HIDDEN CREEK, SPUZ D, LAKE VIEW, GOLD COIN, OPHIR Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H064
Status Showing NTS Map 092H11W
Latitude 049º 39' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 20' 37'' Northing 5502548
Easting 619532
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Methow
Capsule Geology

In the area of the Majestic showing, north-northwest striking, variably dipping Lower and Middle Jurassic Ladner Group siltstone predominates. At an elevation of 686 metres on the west bank of Hidden Creek, a 3.66-metre wide porphyry dyke intruding the siltstone has been traced for approximately 100 metres on the surface. The dyke strikes 75 degrees, dips "slightly" to the southeast and varies from 2.13 to 2.44 metres wide.

Anastomosing quartz veinlets and stringers were observed to cut the dyke and a 1.27 to 2-centimetre wide quartz vein hosting finely disseminated pyrite and tetradymite is reported to have carried visible gold, locally encrusted by iron oxides. A grab sample of selected material from this vein assayed 216.0 grams per ton gold (Property File - Crossland, F.J. (1935)). Development is reported to have consisted of two tunnels, 70 and 9 metres long, respectively.

Refer to the Gold Coin showing (092HNW032) for details of the regional geology.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1911-184; 1912-188; 1913-219; 1915-263
EMPR ASS RPT 6046, 6928, 7168, 7495, 7578, 7675, 8394, 8535, 9767, 11487, 13499
EMPR BULL 20, Pt. IV, pp. 20-23; *79, p. 69
EMPR EXPL 1976-E86; 1977-E133; 1978-E150; 1979-154; 1980-207; 1982-188; 1983-257
EMPR PF (*Crossland, F.J. (1935): Report on Hidden Creek Mines, pp. 5-6)
GSC MAP 737A; 12-1969; 41-1989
GSC P 69-47
EMPR PFD 521865

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