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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Nov-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name FAITH, DORIS, OZZARD Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092C093
Status Showing NTS Map 092C14W
Latitude 048º 55' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 28' 03'' Northing 5422949
Easting 319287
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Faith occurrence is located on the south western shore of Barkley Sound, approximately 6 kilometres east of Ucluelet.

The area is underlain by Jurassic and Cretaceous Pacific Rim Complex sedimentary rocks.

Mineralized showings occur over a 30 metre stretch of beach and consist of pyrite in tiny (1-2 millimetre) quartz veinlets and disseminations within a shear zone 18 metres wide. The shear zone strikes 350 degrees and dips 60 degrees east. Host rocks comprise chert, dolomitized limestone and some graphitic slate.

Grab samples of pyritic material from the shear zone assayed up to 7.54 grams per tonne gold (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 204, page 30).

In 1980, Umex Inc. staked the Ozz claims to cover a series of gold-arsenic geochemical anomalies (MINFILE 092C 996). From 1982 to 1983, rock and soil sampling surveys identified three anomalous zones. In 1985, two diamond drill holes were completed and in 1988, a Dighem IV airborne survey was flown over the property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1935-F54,F55
EMPR ASS RPT 885, 10631, 11708, 12817, 14591, 17740
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR OF 1988-24; RGS 24, 1990
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13; *204-29,30
GSC OF 463; 821; 1272
GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30
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
EMPR PFD 826554, 827046

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