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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  05-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name IRON MASK Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B043
Status Showing NTS Map 092B06W
Latitude 048º 27' 17'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 28' 46'' Northing 5366954
Easting 464551
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The occurrence is located on the southern slope of Mill Hill, around 100 metres in elevation and approximately 1.5 kilometres north east of Langford.

The area is underlain by amphibolites derived from Paleozoic to Mesozoic metavolcanics (Wark Complex) are intruded by apophyses of Wark quartz diorite gneiss. Bodies of Permian and/or Triassic limestone are mapped in the area.

Locally, a shear zone, about 60 to 90 centimetres wide, hosts a small garnet-diopside-epidote skarn occurrence. The occurrence is about 45 centimetres wide and contains magnetite, pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. The amphibolites are intensely silicified and cut by quartz veinlets.

Bibliography
EMPR P 1993-23
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM *13, p. 165; *36, p. 132; 96
GSC OF 463: 701
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 79-30

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