The map areas contain 100 recorded mineral occurrences and is underlain
by the Insular belt.The Maid
of Erin (114P 007) mine produced gold,silver and copper until 1956. The
Windy
Craggy (114P 002) copper-gold-cobalt-silver deposit contains a resources of
297,440,000 million tonnes grading 1.38 per cent copper, 0.2 gram per tonne gold, 3.83
grams per tonne silver and 0.069 per cent cobalt. The O'Connor
River (114P 005) gypsum deposit consists of 3 separate zones; estimated
reserves of Zone 1 are 2.5 million tonnes grading 79.0 per cent gypsum. The map area has
good potential for exploration targets as many new occurrences have been recorded in
previously unexplored areas.
BC Geological Survey Publications for
NTS 114P and 114O
