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File Created: 17-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  12-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name CAMP CREEK Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C088
Status Showing NTS Map 092C15E
Latitude 048º 50' 05'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 34' 53'' Northing 5410289
Easting 383953
Commodities Silver, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Camp Creek showing is exposed on Camp Creek, a tributary of Four Mile Creek, approximately 1,150 metres north of the Pan (092C 088) occurrence.

The area is underlain by mafic to felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group and limestone of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group). These are intruded by granodiorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and quartz feldspar porphyry dikes.

Locally, a series of milky quartz veins are hosted by pale, light-green rhyolite containing pervasive fine-grained pyrite disseminations. The veins range up to 15 millimetres wide and often contain bands of coarse- grained pyrite, 1 to 2 millimetres wide, and traces of chalcopyrite and bornite. The attitude of the veins strikes 210 degrees and dips 65 degrees. One of the veins includes a 0.4 metre long by 0.05 metre wide eye-shaped pod of massive pyrite with chalcopyrite.

In 2010, a specimen of the sulphides was assayed and found to contain 15.3 per cent copper and 17.2 parts per million silver (Assessment Report 31908).

In 2010 and 2011, Nitinat Mineral Corp. completed programs of geochemical sampling, prospecting, geological mapping, trenching and three diamond drill holes, totalling 162.0 metres, on the Jasper property. During this work the Camp Creek occurrence was discovered and sampled.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *31908, 32906
EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, p. 23; 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR GEM *1971-228
EMPR OF 1988-24; RGS 24, 1990
EMPR PF (In 092C General File - Aeromagnetic Contour Map, Nitinat Lake Area, Noranda Mines Ltd., date unknown; Prospectors Report 1994-50 by Arne Birkeland; Prospectors Report 1995-11 by Arne Birkeland; Birkeland, A.O. (2001): Property Exam Jasper Property, 34 pages (see 092C 080))
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
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
Houle, J. (2007-05-15): Technical Report on the Jasper Property
EMPR PFD 827271

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