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IV.—An Occurrence of Scheelite, Near Barkerville, B.C.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Austin J. R. Atkin
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Lying in the heart of the gold belt known as the Barkerville District, Hardscrabble Creek was discovered by the pioneer prospectors in 1867, and has ever since been noted for the number of heavy minerals associated with the gold. Galena and various iron minerals were recognized, but the most troublesome was a heavy white substance, which caused great trouble to the miners by packing in the sluice-boxes so tightly that the gold was carried over the firmly set particles by the amount of water required to keep the riffles clean. An investigation by an economic geologist of high standing of some lumps of the alleged mineral showed it to be barium sulphate, and no examination was made of the smaller particles.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , March 1905 , pp. 116 - 117
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1905

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page 116 note 1 The thin sections were cut for me by Mr. Gregory, Mineralogist, of Kelso Place, South Kensington.