Roderick Dhu Prospect, Jewel Lake Area, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canadai

Regional Level Types
Roderick Dhu Prospect	Prospect
Jewel Lake Area	Exploration Area
Greenwood Mining Division	Division
British Columbia	Province
Canada	Country

About 11 kilometres north-northeast of Greenwood, British Columbia, north of the north-east end of Jewel (Long) Lake; Greenwood Mining Division.
The correct spelling of the name of this prospect is “Roderick Dhu”, but it has been called “Rhoderick Dhu” (Thomson, 1937) and “Rhoderic Dhu” (Thompson, 1949). Note that Jewel Lake was originally known as Long Lake, and the occurrence is in what was known in the early years as the “Long Lake Camp”. And for any literary/history buffs, there is an adjacent claim called “Lady of the Lake”!
The following quote is from B.C. Government site “Minfile”- Minfile No. 082ESE125:
“On the Roderick Dhu claim (L.598) a quartz fissure-vein is hosted in north-northeast striking and east dipping metasedimentary rocks of Group. These rocks are schistose quartz wackes or lithic wackes and are intruded by a Lower Tertiary pulaskite dyke. The quartz vein appears to be in a prominent fracture zone that roughly parallels the bedding foliation planes of the host metasedimentary rocks. At the southern extremity of the vein, widths range from 5 to 30 centimetres and is mineralized with galena, pyrite and telluride. Limonite occurs in fractures within the quartz. A shaft was sunk to 23 metres depth and stoping carried out 30 metres south. The quartz vein has been traced 152 metres northeast where a second shaft was sunk 7.6 metres in the vein, but mineralization is sparse. To the north of this point, the vein has been displaced by a 61 metre wide pulaskite dyke.”
Comments by Giles Peatfield regarding minerals reported:
Altaite: This mineral was reported by Thomson (1937, and subsequently by (Thompson, 1949). There are no details of where Thomson received his information, and the identification should be regarded as tentative.
Tetradymite: This mineral was reported by Thomson (1937, and subsequently by (Thompson, 1949). There are no details of where Thomson received his information, and the identification should be regarded as tentative.
One last comment. For many of the occurrences in this area, most workers simply report “telluride”, “rich tellurides”, etc. Specific mineral species data are few and far between.

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Link to British Columbia Minfile:	082ESE125

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