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File Created: 05-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  08-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name RIVERSIDE ROAD Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B062
Status Showing NTS Map 092B12E
Latitude 048º 40' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 40' 08'' Northing 5392439
Easting 450766
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Riverside Road occurrence is located north of the Koksilah River, near the junction of Riverside and Monastery roads.

The area is underlain predominantly by bedded chert and cherty basaltic tuffs of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation (formerly the Sediment-Sill Unit of Muller; Buttle Lake Group). These are overlain by limestone, bedded chert and cherty tuff of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Mount Mark Formation (Buttle Lake Group; formerly the Buttle Lake Formation). These Paleozoic rocks are intruded by numerous dikes of feldspar porphyritic dacite and rhyolite and part of a granodioritic stock of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite (formerly called Island Intrusions).

Locally, a volcanic derived sediment or tuff hosts finely disseminated sulphides.

In 1986, Hollycroft Resources and Nexus Resources completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the Sil claims. A grab sample (1273) assayed 0.6396 per cent copper and 7.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 15218).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *15218
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91
EMPR OF 1988-8
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM 13; 96
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 79-30

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