Survey Metadata
Bedrock, Indicator minerals
British Columbia
2019
Lithogeochemical survey, NTS 93A/3, 6, 93B/8, 9, south central British Columbia, 2019.
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Survey Description
Bedrock samples that were previous collected around the Gibraltar Mine and the Woodjam copper prospect in south central British Columbia were processed for heavy minerals in order to identify minerals that have the potential to be used as porphyry copper indicator minerals (PCIM).
| Location | Number of Samples | Comments |
| Gibraltar |
5 from mine site 2 from Gunn porphyry |
- collected in 2014 by personnel from BCGS, UBC and Taseko Mines |
| Gibraltar | 6 |
-from GSC archives -originally collected by R. Kirkham in 1973 and 1975 |
| Woodjam | 10 |
- previously crushed coarse bedrock core samples - collected by Gold Fields Horsefly Exploration Corporation |
The data are published in Geological Survey of Canada Open File 8580.
Publication History
| Index | Publication |
|---|---|
| 1 | Plouffe, A., Ferbey T. (2019). Indicator-mineral content of bedrock and till at the Gibraltar porphyry Cu-Mo deposit and the Woodjam porphyry Cu-Au-Mo prospect, south-central British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8580, 33 p. ( more) |
| 2 | Layton-Matthews, D., McClenaghan, M.B. (2022). Current techniques and applications of mineral chemistry to mineral exploration; examples from glaciated terrain: a review. Minerals, v. 12, article number 59. ( more) |
Project History
| Index | Year | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2011-2019 | British Columbia Porphyry Copper Project, 2011-2019 ( more) |
Geographic Extent
| Minimum Latitude | Maximum Latitude | Minimum Longitude | Maximum Longitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52.2223° | 52.5227° | -122.3179° | -121.3321° |
The geographic extent of the survey is defined by the following polygons:
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Covers a small part of NTS 93B/09 (Alexandria) and a very small part of 93B/08 (Soda Creek; 1 sample) in the area of the Gibraltar mine, south central British Columbia. It is located approximately 50 north of the town of Williams Lake and 10 km east of Highway 97 (Cariboo Highway).
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Covers a very small part of the southwest corner of NTS 93A/06 (Horsefly; 2 samples) near the Woodjam copper prospect in south central British Columbia. It is located approximately 7 km south-southwest of the town of Horsefly and 1.5 km southwest of Starlike Lake. Deerhorn Creek runs through the study area.
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Covers a very small part of the northwest corner of NTS 93A/03 (Eagle (Murphy) Lake), near the Woodjam copper prospect in south central British Columbia. It is located approximately 50 km east-northeast of the town of Williams Lake and 5 km south of Starlike Lake.
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