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Whisky Creek, Woodstock, Omenica Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

Seligmannite
Whisky Creek, Woodstock, Omenica Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

Photo: 2004 ROM
Latitude: 53°34'15"N
Longitude: 126°59'12"W
The Whiskey Creek showing is located on the south bank of the Skeena River, 4.5 kilometres northeast of Cedarvale.
The showing is hosted in variably calcareous siltstone intruded by several northeast trending rhyolite dykes. Mineralization occurs in quartz veins, in stockworks and as massive, bedded sulphides in siltstone. The host rocks have been carbonatized and sericitized in an alteration envelope up to 1.0 metre in width. Pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite occur in seams up to 0.10 metres thick in siliceous siltstone. Quartz stockworks, consisting of 1 to 2 millimetre wide quartz filled fractures, host fine grained pyrite, plus or minus chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. Quartz veins contain near massive lenses of mixed sulphides comprising pyrite, arseno- pyrite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, galena, tetrahedrite and chalcopyrite (in order of abundance). The lenses occur as partially segregated bands parallel to vein walls. Sulphide content can be up to 40 per cent in the veins. The veins are 0.15 metres wide, strike north and dip 20 degrees east.

Mineral List

Arsenopyrite
Chalcopyrite
Galena
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Seligmannite
Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite


9 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.

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