Soil Geochemical Results

The Ram soil geochemistry grid is designed to explore a newly discovered showing of strongly brecciated and silicified fine grained subvolcanic felsite exposed as a recent logging road cut east of Victoria Creek. The showing, about 35 km southeast of Quesnel, was discovered in spring 2006 by Mr Peter Bernier. The felsite invades typical Nicola Group altered basalt including dark green, massive greenstone and dense saussuritized pyroclastic rocks. The felsite is very fine grained, leucocratic and holds about 5 to 10 % disseminated pyrite. It is shot through with narrow irregularly oriented fractures, filled with limonite.

Rock samples taken from the showing by Mr Gary Roste were assayed by Eco Tech Labs of Kamloops; they returned moderately interesting results. No significant gold was reported but two rock samples returned 582 and 600 ppm copper.

In June 2006 soil samples were taken by crews working for Richfield Ventures Corp on grid to explore the showing further. Some 708 samples were collected on a grid with 50 m line and sample spacing. Samples were located by GPS coordinates and no grid was cut. The samples were analyzed by Eco Tech labs of Kamloops.

Location of the Ram soil geochemistry grid. The pale blue outline area represents RVC title ground.

Photograph of highly fractured pyritic felsite from the Ram showing.

Analytical results, provided by Eco Tech as Excel files, were checked for accuracy and reproducibility from repeat data provided by Eco Tech. Sample tag data were checked and eastings and northings determined from them. These data were prepared for import and plotted in Manifold GIS. Maps were made of the distribution of each metal. Surfaces to show the relief of each metal in map form were prepared and contoured. The diagrams given here are products of this work.

In the maps reproduced here the UTM grid line spacing is 1000 m. Sample localities are represented by small open round circles on a regular grid spaced at 50m. In the metal distribution maps the location of the Ram showing is given by a yellow circle; note that in most metal distributions the Ram showing has no response despite its exciting lithology.

Ram Grid sample localities. The grey dots represent soil sample localities and the red lines represent the proposed soil grid lines. The yellow dot is the Ram showing; green dots are rock sample localities.