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File Created: 22-Oct-1990 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  04-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name VICTORY (EAST), PANSY, WESTBANK, SAN JUAN Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B061
Status Prospect NTS Map 092B12W
Latitude 048º 36' 19'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 58' 58'' Northing 5384044
Easting 427551
Commodities Tungsten, Antimony, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Victory (East) prospect is located on an un-named tributary of the San Juan River, approximately 1.5 kilometres north of the junction of Clapp Creek and the San Juan River.

The area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics consisting of west-northwest striking, coarse flow rock (greenstone) which is considerably altered and rudely schistose. The showings are mainly in a massive dark grey impure limestone and marble, some of which is carbonaceous or graphitic, thought to be lenses or interbeds within the greenstone. The limestone appears to trend west and to be steeply dipping.

The showings consist of white quartz and carbonate veinlets that occur in an east striking shear zone, up to 1 metre in width. The veinlets are generally less than 3 millimetres in width, but some are as much as 8 centimetres wide. They are irregular in attitude but many strike eastward. Grains or masses of scheelite, as much as 2.5 centimetres across, are irregularly distributed in the veinlets. The veinlets also contain minor amounts of pyrite and locally, abundant stibnite.

The shear was explored in the late 1940's or early 1950's by a series of trenches and opencuts and by two adits aligned along a length of 200 metres. An upper adit has been driven west along the zone for 32 metres with at least 2 crosscuts driven off of it. One sample taken in a crosscut across 90 centimetres assayed 0.30 per cent tungstic oxide (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1952, page 216). Of several samples taken in the adit, most assayed trace or nil gold and silver. The lower adit is about 11 metres in length. Two diamond-drill holes were put down on the zone in 1969 (Philp, 1969).

In 1985, Tri-Pacific Resources completed a program of geochemical sampling, ground geophysical surveys and geological mapping. A chip sample, from a trench exposing the Pansy vein, assayed 6.6 grams per tonne over 1.7 metres (Assessment Report 14414). In 1995, a ground electromagnetic survey was completed on the area as the Dianne claim.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1952-215
EMPR ASS RPT 1656, *14414, 14702, 24341
EMPR OF 1991-17
EMPR PF (Report on a Geochemical Survey on the San Juan Group,
Concorde Explorations Limited, 1968; Contract for Mining Lease No.
15, between Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas and Concorde Explorations
Ltd., 1968; Philp, R.H.D. (1969): Summary Report on the Work
conducted during 1969 on the San Juan Property of Concorde
Explorations Ltd., Argillis Exploration Services Limited; Allen,
D.G. (1987): Memorandum Report on the Pansy claim)
GSC EC GEOL 17, p. 120
GSC MEM 13; 36; 96
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC OF 463; 701
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 77-1A, pp. 287-294; 79-30
GCNL #151, 1968
Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with
Emphasis on the Relationship of Plutonic Rocks and Mineral
Deposits, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University

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