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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Aug-2009 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name F.M. WELLS, ASTER Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093A094
Status Showing NTS Map 093A14W
Latitude 052º 54' 11'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 23' 36'' Northing 5862695
Easting 608062
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The geology of the region consists of (?)Hadrynian to Paleozoic Snowshoe Group rocks. The Snowshoe Group is an assemblage of dominantly metasedimentary rocks within the Barkerville Terrane. These metasedimentary rocks comprise mainly marble, quartzite and phyllite which, in this area, are mainly undifferentiated. Metamorphism of the region varies from chlorite to sillimanite facies and higher, but most of the mineralization in the region is confined to those areas metamorphosed no higher than greenschist grade.

The F.M.Wells showing consists of quartz veins which cut schist and quartzite. There is no direct evidence for gold mineralization in these veins, but quartz veins on surrounding claims assayed gold. No other geological information is available on this showing.

Bibliography
EMPR OF 2001-11
EMPR BULL 34; 38
GSC MAP 562A; 59-1959; 1424A; 1538G
GSC MEM 421
GSC P 38-16, p. 32
GSC OF 574; 844

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