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Coquihalla Gold Belt
Ladner Suite
GPEX’s “Ladner Suite” consists of three properties, the “Silver Salam,” the “Emancipation East,” and the “Ladner Junction” claims. These tenures are contiguous and jointly comprise 254.8 hectares. The claims are situate (substantially) along the Coquihalla River and Ladner Creek in the Coquihalla Valley, approximately 18 kilometers northeast of Hope, along BC Highway 5, the Coquihalla Highway. The East Hozameen Fault, a northwest/southeast trending gold-bearing serpentine zone, more commonly known as the Coquihalla Serpentine Belt, traverses in parallel to the claim group. The general vicinity of the Ladner Suite of claims bears a rich history of hosting gold-bearing mineralization, with the past producing mines, the Emancipation Mine and the Carolin Mine, with the Carolin bearing the greater prominence.
Access to the “Ladner Suite” claims, may be gained from either of four points along the Coquihalla Highway. Two such routes would be via exiting the Coquihalla Highway at the Carolin Mine Exit, #195. One said access point being the Carolin Mine Road, which cuts through two of the properties and corners on a third. The second access via the Carolin Mine Exit, being that old roadway leading northward and upstream along the Coquihalla River (and Coquihalla Highway) to the confluence of Ladner Creek with the Coquihalla River, thence westward along Ladner Creek. This access cuts through two of the properties. The remaining two points of access are via taking the Portia Turn-around Exit, Exit #202, thence traveling southward on the Coquihalla Highway. The third such access point is then via the Skylock Exit, a forestry road leading northward along Ladner Creek and cutting through the two northern-most properties. The fourth point of access, south of the Skylock Exit, while remaining southbound along the Coquihalla Highway, until the final exit point, at the immediate north end of Ladner Creek Bridge. The latter such access point also intersects with the third-mentioned, at the confluence of Ladner Creek with the Coquihalla River.
The Coquihalla Serpentine Belt forms a narrow, elongate, north- northwest trending steeply dipping unit separating supracrustal rocks of the Ladner Group to the east, from the Hozameen Complex in the west. Dark, highly sheared to massive serpentinite of probable peridotite parentage, characterizes the belt. The western contact is represented by a major fracture which appears to dip steeply east. This is termed the "West" Hozameen fault and the serpentinites in this vicinity contain highly sheared talcose rocks. The serpentinite has a complex association with diorite intrusions which occur as dike-like bodies within the ultramafics.
Minfile Summary Reports, Numbers 092HSW034 (Emancipation), 092HSW107 (Camp) and 092HSW035 (Broken Hill), describe the area’s geology, however, Number 092HSW034, offers the more thorough referencing. The many varied Reports by JT Shearer offer the most thorough accounting of historical mining in the area and description of the geology along the Hozameen Fault.
Activity in the region, as with that throughout the mining industry, has fluctuated according to the rising and falling precious metals markets. Following decades of low prices, the upswing in precious metals has generated renewed interest and extensive explorations. Firms and individuals are now focused on many of the older claim areas.
Ideally suited for further explorations and development, or as a capital investment property.
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~ Silver Salam ~
(AKA Camp)
Tenure # 537127
Central coordinates are: 121° 14’ 42.0 ” W Longitude, 49° 29 ’ 58.9” N Latitude
Ideally suited for further explorations and development, or as a capital investment property.
please direct inquiries to:
Larry Amey Pres. & CEO
(604) 869-5511 larry@gpex.ca
~ Emancipation East ~
Tenure # 831940
Central coordinates are: 121° 14’ 52.3” W Longitude, 49° 29’ 21.9” N Latitude
Ideally suited for further explorations and development, or as a capital investment property.
please direct inquiries to:
Larry Amey Pres. & CEO
(604) 869-5511 larry@gpex.ca
~ Ladner Junction ~
Tenure # 599445
Central coordinates are: 121° 14’ 19.5” W Longitude, 49° 29’ 36.9” N Latitude
Ideally suited for further explorations and development, or as a capital investment property.
please direct inquiries to:
Larry Amey Pres. & CEO
(604) 869-5511 larry@gpex.ca
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