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File Created: 03-Jan-1991 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  11-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name HARRIS, CW, LG, BOLDUC Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C079
Status Showing NTS Map 092C09W
Latitude 048º 44' 22'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 16' 30'' Northing 5399276
Easting 406259
Commodities Iron, Magnetite, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Harris occurrence is located on the north eastern slope of Mount Bolduc, south of the Harris River in its northern head waters.

The area is underlain by a series of basaltic flows and related pyroclastics of the Karmutsen Formation and is overlain by, or interbedded with, limestone of the Quatsino Formation; both units belong to the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. Andesite to rhyolite tuffs and breccias, with minor intercalated greywacke and argillite, of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group overlie the Upper Triassic rocks. Intruding this stratigraphic assemblage is the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite of monzonite to diorite composition.

Magnetite with chalcopyrite occurs at the contact of a granitic intrusion and limestone. Andesite is reported to underlie the limestone.

In 1971, Lucky Strike Mines completed a program of geological mapping, soil sampling and a ground magnetometer survey on the CW and LG claims. In 1980, Union Miniere Exploration and Mining completed a ground magnetometer survey on the Bolduc claim.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3849, 468, 4792, 8679
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR GEM 1969-222
EMPR OF RGS 24
EMPR PF (*Sketch Map (in Dore 99 - 092C 100 file); Philp, R.H.D
(1969): Report on the Harris Creek Property for Grandeur Mines
Ltd. (in Nan 092C 079 file))
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463; 821
GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30
EMPR PFD 862241

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