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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Jun-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name GORD DAVIES (EAST), GORD DAVIES, HAR, HAR 1-6 Mining Division Liard, Omineca
BCGS Map 094E055
Status Showing NTS Map 094E11E
Latitude 057º 31' 36'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 11' 05'' Northing 6377467
Easting 608704
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Gord Davies (East) showing consists of two samples taken 50 metres apart, of a quartz-carbonate vein, and stockwork with galena and pyrite (Assessment Report 18335). The showing is located 2.35 kilometres southwest of Breccia Peak, west of Moosehorn Creek and south of Hiamadam Creek in the north-central part of the Toodoggone gold camp. Smithers is located 310 kilometres to the south.

The Gord Davies (East) showing is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage which lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins.

Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Takla Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. These Takla rocks have been intruded by plutons and other bodies of the mainly granodiorite to quartz monzonite Early Jurassic Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation, Hazelton Group.

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle, northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

The Gord Davies (East) showing is underlain by volcanics of the Takla Group. At this location they are composed of volcanic flows, pyroclastic crystal tuffs, crystal lithic tuff breccias and volcaniclastic sediments. These volcanic rocks have undergone weak to moderate chlorite, carbonate and epidote alteration (Assessment Report 18454).

Volcanics of the McClair Member of the Toodoggone volcanics outcrop immediately to the west. They are composed of interbedded porphyritic flows, flow breccias, crystal tuffs and crystal lithic breccias. Minor volcaniclastic sediments are also present. Intensely fractured, porphyritic monzodiorite dikes cut the above.

These lithologies show generally weak chlorite and carbonate alteration. Feldspar matrix and phenocrysts are weakly affected by sericitic and argillic alteration.

The Gord Davies (East) showing consists of a quartz-carbonate stockwork with galena and pyrite, and a quartz-carbonate vein, about 20 centimetres thick. The two are roughly 50 metres apart along a ridge top. Sample GD-86-3025 was taken from the quartz-carbonate stockwork and assayed 1.05 grams per tonne gold and 19.5 grams per tonne silver. Sample GD-86-3026, taken from the quartz-carbonate vein assayed 0.253 gram per tonne gold and 70.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 15474).

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