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File Created: 06-Dec-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  09-Jan-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name VW Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092C086
Status Anomaly NTS Map 092C15W
Latitude 048º 49' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 57' 26'' Northing 5410436
Easting 356362
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The VW copper anomaly is located on the southern side of the South Sarita River and is at 360 metres in elevation, approximately 600 metres south and up-slope of the Wet occurrence (MINFILE 092C 083).

The area is underlain by intermediate to felsic volcanics of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group, which are intruded by a complex of porphyritic quartz monzonite, diorite, quartz diorite and feldspar porphyry correlated with the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

In 1991, Phelps Dodge Corporation of Canada completed a geochemical sampling program on the VW mineral claim. Soil sampling identified a 400 by 450 metre copper geochemical anomaly with values greater than 180 parts per million copper. The anomaly, reportedly, remains open to the northwest, southwest and southeast (Assessment Report 22146).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *22146

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