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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  21-Apr-2021 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI 093N13 Gem1
Name JADE AND OGDEN CREEKS, ED, TT Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093N081
Status Past Producer NTS Map 093N13W
Latitude 055º 50' 04'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 48' 42'' Northing 6191230
Easting 323920
Commodities Jade/Nephrite, Gemstones Deposit Types Q01 : Jade
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Jade and Ogden Creeks occurrence is situated 4 kilometres southwest of Mount Ogden, approximately 40 kilometres north-northeast of Takla Landing.

Nephrite jade was initially discovered on Mount Ogden in 1967 and by 1969, 15 placer leases had been staked near the confluence of Ogden Creek and a tributary known locally as Jade Creek.

The area is underlain by variably metamorphosed sedimentary rocks assigned to the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex into which Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Topley intrusions and local sill-like serpentinite bodies, formerly assigned to the Middle Permian to Late Triassic Trembleur intrusions and now termed Mississippian to Triassic Oceanic Ultramafites, have been emplaced.

Initial production occurred in 1968 when Northern Jadex Co. Ltd. shipped approximately 51 tonnes of nephrite boulders to North Vancouver. The following year, Kuan-Yin Jade Industries Ltd. shipped an 18-tonne "jade" boulder for exhibition in the British Columbia pavilion at the Osaka Exposition.

In addition to the placer leases, Northern Jadex acquired the Ed group of mineral claims and reportedly mined 45 tonnes of jade from a serpentinite bedrock source in 1970.

This occurrence is one of numerous placer and in-situ jade discoveries made in the Mount Ogden area (see 093N 157, 165).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 5221, 12549, 13971, 35193
EMPR CORPFILE (*Northern Jadex Co. Ltd., Kuan-Yin Jade
Industries Ltd.)
EMPR GEM 1969-389; 1970-498
EMPR OF 2000-33
EMPR PFD 885791, 681523
GSC MAP 844A; 907A; 971A; 1424A
GSC MEM 252
GSC P 74-1B, pp. 31-42

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