MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092B 065

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	08-Jul-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	HILL, HILL-DONALDSON	Mining Division	Victoria
		BCGS Map	092B032
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092B05E
Latitude	048º 21' 14''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	123º 42' 34''	Northing	5355878
		Easting	447442
Commodities	Copper, Magnetite	Deposit Types	M02 : Tholeiitic intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Crescent

Capsule Geology

The Hill occurrence is located on the western side of the East Sooke Peninsula, approximately 3.5 kilometres south of Sooke.

The showing occurs along a north trending shear in fracture-filled and replacement hornblendite. The shear is up to 365 metres long and cuts olivine gabbro of the Eocene Sooke Gabbro.

The chief sulphide is pyrrhotite which is cut by veinlets of chalcopyrite and pyrite. Fine flakes of native copper are present and magnetite is locally abundant.

The mineralization was initially explored by a short adit and an open pit. In 1951, programs of geological mapping, diamond drilling and ground geophysical surveys were completed on the area as the June, Lorna, Moffat and Pac claims. One of three holes drilled in 1951 intersected 32 metres of 0.40 per cent copper (Chubb, 1951).

In 1971, MacSan Exploration completed a program rock, soil and silt sampling on the area as the K2 and K4 claims.

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1951-200

EMPR ASS RPT *61, 2267, 3409, 3594, 3584

EMPR PF (Huestis, H.H. (1948): Report on Sooke Copper Nickel Group;

Letter regarding Merryth and Griffith zones (unsigned), 1948;

Gray, W.A. (1950): Supplementary Report on the East Sooke Copper

Showings; Page, T.W. (1950): A Report on the Willow Grouse and

the Margaret Copper Properties; *Report on Electromagnetic Survey

Performed on some Copper Prospects in East Sooke, B.C., by

Geolectric Exploration Company Inc., 1951; *Chubb, P.A. (1951):

Diamond-drill Logs and Assays; Letter regarding Willow Grouse, by

P.A. Chubb, 1951; Report on East Sooke Drill Program, by P.A.

Chubb, 1951; Report on Supplementary Sampling, by Huestis, Kenneco

and Cooke (undated); A Report on the Willow Grouse and the

Margeret Group of Mining Claims; Mascan Explorations Ltd. Pros-

pectus, May 13, 1966; Cross-sections of 1951 drill holes, by

Mascan Exploration Limited)

GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A

GSC MEM 13, p. 180; 96, p. 328

GSC OF 463; 701

GSC P 1972-44; 1975-1A, p. 23; 1979-30

EMPR PFD 5437, 5440, 5581, 5582, 5583, 5584, 5585, 5586, 5587, 810327, 674521