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MINFILE No 104I 007

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	13-May-2020	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI	104I7 Au4
Name	FAULKNER (PALMER) CREEK, PALMER CREEK	Mining Division	Liard
		BCGS Map	104I047
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	104I07E
Latitude	058º 26' 54''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	128º 42' 16''	Northing	6478664
		Easting	517251
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Ancestral North America, Cassiar, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Faulkner (Palmer) Creek placer occurrence is located about 80 kilometres east of Dease Lake. Faulkner (Palmer) Creek is a tributary of the Turnagain River.

In 1874, coarse gold was found in a creek's tributary to the headwaters of the Turnagain River. Gold was found on Palmer Creek "several" years before 1925. The best values were found about halfway up the creek with gold distributed throughout the gravel.

The area drained by Faulkner Creek is mainly underlain by rocks of the Ancestral North America. These include metasediments of the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian Boya Formation (Ingenika Group) possibly containing rocks of the Stelkuz Formation (Ingenika Group); sediments of the Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group and; sediments of the Upper Cambrian to Ordovician lower Road River Group. The surface is covered by deep glacial drift and a hummocky morainal topography. It is not considered favorable for placer gold concentrations.

Recorded production between 1926 and 1930 totalled 249 grams (8 ounces).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1925-11; 1933-72 EMPR ASS RPT 35367 EMPR OF 1989-18; 1996-11 EMPR PF (In 104I 085 - *Sevensma, P.H. (1970): Report on the Wheaton (Boulder) Creek jade deposits and other Turnagain placer leases for Demsey Mines Ltd.) GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779 GSC BULL 504 GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27