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MINFILE No 104P 090

File Created:	12-Jan-1987	by	Mary McLean (MM)
Last Edit:	23-Oct-2014	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	SOMERS CREEK PLACER	Mining Division	Liard
		BCGS Map	104P023
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	104P06W
Latitude	059º 16' 59''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	129º 25' 06''	Northing	6571646
		Easting	476163
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Cassiar, Overlap Assemblage

Capsule Geology

The Somers Creek Placer occurrence is located north of McDame Creek, about 100 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake.

Somers Creek was worked from 1876 to 1880, yielding 13 kilograms (458 ounces) of gold. The probable source of the placer gold is gold-bearing quartz veins which occur in Upper Plaeozoic Slide Mountain Complex metasediments and greenstones which underlie much of the surrounding area.

Bibliography

EMPR BULL 28, pp. 57,60; 83

EMPR ASS RPT 24945

EMPR AR 1879 (table); 1931-A55

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 245-248

EMPR OF 1988-32; 1996-11

EMPR EXPL 1989-229-236

EMPR PF (Wilms, R.G. (1955): The Commercial Outlook of the McDame Creek Watershed; (1978): General Report on Placer Gold, Gold Quartz and Base Metal Mining in Northern British Columbia, Canada; (1980): Report, In Part, (1981): Report on 1000 Million Cubic Yards of Placer Gold-Bearing Gravels in the McDame Valley, Northern British Columbia)

GSC MEM 194; 319

GSC MAP 381A; 1110A

GSC OF 2779

EMPR PFD 674352