Polar Jade

The Polar Placer Jade Project is situated approximately 40 km east of the Town of Dease Lake, British Columbia, along the Boulder Creek Mining and approximately 1 km north of the Polar Jade™ Mine, one of Canada's premier Jade mining operations. "The famous gem-grade discovery at the Polar Mine secured Canadian Jade's fame as a world class gemstone producer."(Industrial Minerals with emphasis on Western North America, 2004)

The region is underlain by upper Mississippian to Permian ultramafic rocks of the Cache Creek Complex. These rocks consist of peridotite, dunite and pyroxenite which are generally serpentinized. The rocks locally include pods of nephrite jade. (BC Government Minfile 104I 083)