Victoria property (Hazelton view), Omineca Mining Division, British Columbia, Canadai

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Victoria property (Hazelton view)	Property
Omineca Mining Division	Mining Division
British Columbia	Province
Canada	Country

The following quote is from B.C. Government site “Minfile”- Minfile No. 093M 072:
“The Victoria property is located on the northwest side of Rocher Deboule Mountain, 8 kilometres south of South Hazelton. Between 1926 and 1940, 51 tonnes produced 7 710 kilograms of arsenic, 7 341 grams of gold and 785 kilograms of cobalt.
Hornfelsic greywackes and siltstones of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group are intruded by the Rocher Deboule porphyritic granodiorite stock of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Plutionic Suite. The stock is cut by vein/dike systems which follow east trending fractures.
The Victoria deposit consists of three parallel vein structures (Victoria #1, #2 and #3), 200 to 300 metres apart, which strike 085 degrees and dip 60 degrees north, and a small cross-vein which strikes northward and dips 50 degrees east. However work it was reported in 2011 that prospecting suggests there may be a well-mineralized, parallel, unexplored vein, Victoria #0, a short distance to the north and a mineralized shear, Victoria #4, further south (Assessment Report 33297, page 33).
The No. 1 vein follows a dark grey, fine-grained diorite dike and averages 0.5 metre wide, is up to 450 metres along strike, and is 300 metres in vertical extent. It is open to the east and at depth. The No. 2 vein follows a feldspar porphyry dike and is 10 metres wide and up to 800 metres long. The No. 3 vein is up to 723 metres long and is intersected by a cross-vein containing galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, safflorite and pyrite.
The vein material consists of an assemblage of gold-bearing cobalt-nickel sulpharsenides with minor molybdenite in a gangue of actinolite with glassy quartz and feldspar. Additional minerals include uraninite, apatite, sphene, allanite, erythrite, cobaltite, rare scapolite and possibly autunite.
A 10-centimetre sample taken in 1940 assayed 270 grams per tonne gold, 37.7 grams per tonne silver, 5.9 per cent cobalt, 0.81 per cent molybdenum, 2.8 per cent nickel and 0.64 per cent equivalent uranium (Bulletin 43). Samples taken in 1950 on the No. 1 and No. 2 veins assayed 47.3 grams per tonne gold, 0.90 per cent cobalt, and 0.16 per cent equivalent uranium across 0.85 metre, and 143.3 grams per tonne gold, 2.05 per cent cobalt and 0.59 per cent equivalent uranium from a veinlet sample, respectively (Geological Survey of Canada Economic Geology 16). A 1983 sample on the No. 2 vein assayed 23.32 grams per tonne gold and 0.0063 per cent arsenic over 0.5 metre (Assessment Report 11019).”

Further comments by Giles Peatfield regarding minerals reported and general matters:
Thompson (1950, p. 453) described the arsenopyrite and löllingite as “arsenian”. He confirmed the skutterudite by X-ray analysis. The Pacific Museum of Earth at the University of British Columbia has a group of specimens (#645) said to contain arsenopyrite, löllingite and skutterudite, with erythrite.
There is little information regarding feldspar species here. Stevenson (1950) described “pink orthoclase” and “white plagioclase” but gave no further details, but later (1951) described the orthoclase as “perthite”. Kindle (1954) simply mentioned “feldspars” with no more details.
As regards secondary uranium minerals, Kindle (1954) mentioned “gummite” but gave no details. Sutherland Brown mentioned possible autunite, but again gave no details.
Stevenson (1950) mentioned “lime garnet” but gave no supporting data. He also listed “carbonate” but again gave no details.
One must stress that as far as can be seen, there are no modern studies of the Co-Ni-Fe-As minerals. This would make a nice research project if specimen material could be assembled.

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