MINFILE Detail Report BC Geological Survey Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources Location/Identification MINFILE Number:

093A 026

Name(s):

LUCE CREEK

Status: Mining Method Regions:

Past Producer

Mining Division:

Cariboo

Open Pit

Electoral District:

Cariboo North

British Columbia

Forest District:

Central Cariboo Forest District

BCGS Map:

093A083

NTS Map:

093A14W

UTM Zone:

10 (NAD 83)

Latitude:

52 51 24 N

Northing:

5857467

Longitude:

121 26 21 W

Easting:

605091

Elevation:

1504 metres

Location Accuracy:

Within 500M

Comments:

Cabin shown on 1:50,000 scale topographic sheet located along Luce Creek which is a main westerly flowing tributary of Little Snowshoe Creek, about 28 kilometres north of Likely.

Mineral Occurrence Commodities:

Gold

Minerals

Significant:

Gold

Mineralization Age:

Tertiary

Deposit

Character:

Unconsolidated

Classification:

Placer

Type:

C01: Surficial placers, C02: Buried-channel placers

Host Rock Dominant Host Rock: Stratigraphic Age Proterozoic-Paleoz.

Sedimentary Group Snowshoe

Tertiary

Formation Undefined Formation ------

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Isotopic Age

Dating Method

Igneous/Metamorphic/Other ------

Glacial/Fluvial Gravels Material Dated

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Lithology:

Gravel, Quartzite

Comments:

Underlain mainly by metasedimentary Snowshoe Group rocks.

Geological Setting Tectonic Belt:

Omineca

Terrane:

Barkerville

Metamorphic Type:

Regional

Grade:

Greenschist

Physiographic Area:

Quesnel Highland

Inventory No inventory data

Capsule Geology The main placer workings on Luce Creek were hydraulic operations on an old channel that was reported to be about 300 metres long and 9 to 15 metres wide. Production figures are not available. The source of the placer gold is most likely the gold vein deposits hosted in the Upper Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group metasedimentary rocks (quartzites). "Data from the Cariboo mining district indicate that supergene leaching of gold dispersed within massive sulphides by Tertiary deep weathering followed by Cenozoic erosion is the most likely explanation for the occurrence of coarse gold nuggets in Quaternary sediments" (Exploration in British Columbia 1989, page 147). The first placer mining in the Quesnel mining district was along the Quesnel River, and on Horsefly River in 1859. In 1860, new discoveries were rapidly made - Keithley, Snowshoe, and Harvey creeks were discovered and a large amount of gold was produced before the earliest production was recorded in 1874. Fully one-third of the total production of the Quesnel district is believed to have been mined between 1860 and 1873 (Bulletin 28).

Bibliography EMPR AR 1902-91; 1905-51; 1906-38; 1909-47; 1910-46 EMPR BULL 28; 34, pp. 48-50 EMPR EXPL 1989-147-169 EMPR FIELDWORK 1990, pp. 331-356; 1992, pp. 463-473 EMPR OF 2001-11 GSC MAP 59-1959; 1424A; 1538G GSC MEM 421 GSC OF 574; 844 Date Coded:

1985/07/24

Coded By:

Date Revised:

2009/08/19

Revised By:

Thursday, February 20, 2014

BC Geological Survey (BCGS) George Owsiacki(GO)

MINFILE Number:

093A 026

Field Check:

N

Field Check:

N

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