MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092C 015

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	30-Jun-1989	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	FAIRSERVICE CREEK, COWICHAN LAKE	Mining Division	Victoria
		BCGS Map	092C080
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C16E
Latitude	048º 47' 56''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 02' 51''	Northing	5405629
		Easting	423076
Commodities	Limestone	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Fairservice Creek showing is located 2.5 kilometres south of the community of Lake Cowichan, 25 kilometres west of Duncan.

A band of limestone outcrops just east of Fairservice Creek and continues east-southeast for at least 2.4 kilometres. The limestone has been correlated to the Upper Pennsylvannian to Lower Permian Mount Mark Formation, Buttle Lake Group (previously Buttle Lake Formation, Sicker Group). In this vicinity, bedding strikes 132 to 145 degrees and dips 55 to 56 degrees southwest. The limestone is overlain to the southwest by pillowed basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group and underlain to the northeast by bedded chert, tuff and breccia of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation, Sicker Group.

The deposit is comprised of light grey to white, fine to medium grained, crinoidal limestone with a few intercalations of thinly bedded sandstone, siltstone and argillite.

Bibliography

EMPR BULL 37, pp. 16,17; *40, pp. 46,47

EMPR FIELDWORK 1978, pp. 38-40; 1986, pp. 223-229; 1987, pp. 81-91; 1989, pp. 503-510

EMPR MP MAP 1992-2

EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-8; RGS 24, 1990

EMPR PF (In General File: B.C. Forest Products Road Map, Cowichan Lake Area, 1963; Yole, R.W. (1972): Preliminary Map, Fairservice Mountain Area)

GSC BULL 23; 40

GSC MAP 1386A

GSC MEM 13

GSC OF 463; 821; 1272

GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30, p. 18

GAC PROCEEDINGS Vol. 20, pp. 30-40

Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic study of Vancouver Island with emphasis on the relationships of mineral deposits to plutonic rocks, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University

Yole, R.W. (1964): A Formal Stratigraphic Study of Upper Paleozoic rocks of Vancouver Island, B.C., Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia

EMPR PFD 5775, 670263, 670264