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File Created: 18-Mar-2005 by Paul Schiarizza (PSC)
Last Edit:  10-Sep-2009 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name VICTORY Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093H003
Status Showing NTS Map 093H04E
Latitude 053º 02' 51'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 30' 17'' Northing 5878610
Easting 600230
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The Victory showing is located on the slopes east of Williams Creek, 2 kilometres south-southeast of Barkerville.

The showing lies within the Barkerville Terrane of the Omineca Belt. The Barkerville Terrane is in thrust contact with Triassic Quesnel Terrane rocks to the west and Hadrynian to Lower Paleozoic Cariboo Terrane rocks to the east. The Barkerville Terrane in this region is underlain by the dominantly metasedimentary rocks of the Hadrynian to Lower Paleozoic Snowshoe Group. In this area the Snowshoe Group comprises limestone, phyllite and quartzite. These rocks have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The showing comprises several quartz veins cutting phyllites and quartzites of the Upper Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group. The veins were worked on the former Victory claim in the early 1900s. Two of these veins, both striking northeast and ranging from 15 to 20, and 25 to 38 centimetres wide respectively, are mineralized with arsenopyrite, pyrite and galena (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 149, page 196, workings 1 and 2). The narrower of these two veins contains stringers up to 5 centimetres wide of massive arsenopyrite with pyrite and galena. In 1926, a sample of this heavily mineralized material yielded 338.74 grams per tonne gold and 75.43 grams per tonne silver, and another sample analyzed 464.23 grams per tonne gold and 115.54 grams per tonne silver (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 149, page 205).

Bibliography
EMPR OF 2004-12
EMPR BULL 38; 47
GSC MEM *149, pp. 196-197; 205
GSC MEM 181, p. 30
GSC MAP 1424A
GSC OF 844

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