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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Mar-2014 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI
Name PG, BALDY HUGHES Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093G065
Status Showing NTS Map 093G11E
Latitude 053º 37' 37'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 05' 30'' Northing 5942021
Easting 493938
Commodities Asbestos Deposit Types M06 : Ultramafic-hosted asbestos
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The showing is located 9 kilometres west of Baldy Hughes Mountain and 3 kilometres east of the Chilanko River.

The region is underlain to the west by the Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek terrane and to the east by the Quesnellia terrane and the Omineca Belt. Middle Jurassic and Tertiary volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlie the Cache Creek Group. The boundary between the Quesnellia and Cache Creek terranes is probably the southern extension of the Pinchi fault system. Ultramafic rocks of ophiolitic affinity, now variably deformed and metamorphosed, were tectonically emplaced within the Cache Creek Group. Chrysotile asbestos occurs within serpentinized peridotite at this locality.

In 1961, the area was claimed as the T.J. group and a magnetometer survey was completed in the same year. Geological surveys of the area noted peridotite masses containing minor amounts of asbestos fibres, up to 0.16 centimetre in length, in the southern portion of the claim No. 9.

In 2004, a reconnaissance geochemical sampling program was undertaken on the PG

claims by Seel Enterprises Ltd. The claims and sampling occur in the area of the plotted asbestos showing, though no asbestos was observed by Seel. The survey consisted of the collection of 8 rock and 298 soil samples. Soil geochemistry was reported as anomalous in nickel, manganese and magnesium.

In 2011, Porpoise Bay Minerals Ltd. collected 427 soil samples and 3 rock samples on the PG property in search for gold mineralization. And in 2012, completed an exploration program of soil, rock and basal till sampling.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 27714, 33045, 33299
EMPR OF 1995-25
EMPR PF Rimfire (Sirola, W.M. (1961-06-16): Magnetic and Geological Survey Report)
GSC MAP 49-1960; 1424A
EMPR PFD 822033

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