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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Feb-1991 by Carol I. Didson (CID)

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Name RICHSTRIKE, WHITECAP, GOLD DIGGERS, WHITE CAP, WHITE WATER, ASPEN, GOLD CAP 3 & 4 Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J078
Status Showing NTS Map 092J09W
Latitude 050º 44' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 24' 52'' Northing 5621725
Easting 541312
Commodities Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Antimony Deposit Types I09 : Stibnite veins and disseminations
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

The Whitecap Property is located east of Bralorne on the western slope of Nosebag Mountain and along Whitecap Creek, in the Bendor Range.

The claims are underlain primarily by Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group) metasediments and metavolcanics, which are sandwiched between the northwest trending Bralorne and Yalakom fault systems. Phyllite, schist, metavolcanics and minor limestone of the Bridge River Complex are intruded by diorite and granodiorite probably related to the nearby Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton, the eastern edge of which lies immediately west of the property.

Narrow quartz veins (less than 20 cm) occupy shears, joints and fractures and are visible in a 196 metre long adit, driven in 1933. The veins contain disseminated pyrite, arsenopyrite and stibnite, with gold, silver and minor lead and zinc values. The best assay from underground sampling ran 0.103 gram per tonne gold, 26.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.04 per cent zinc and 0.02 per cent lead (Assessment Report 17177). Most assays were much lower. The Ministry of Mines Annual Report for 1933 quotes surface values of up to 8.9 grams per tonne gold.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1933-A262
EMPR ASS RPT *17177
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, p. 35; 1985, pp. 303-310; 1986, pp. 23-29; 1987, pp. 93-130; 1988, pp. 105-152; 1989, pp. 45-72; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10
EMPR PF (Map showing Bridge River Area Mineral Claims; Report by A.J. Gaul, 1934)

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