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File Created: 28-Dec-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)
Last Edit:  28-Dec-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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Name GOLD DYKE Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C089
Status Showing NTS Map 092C16W
Latitude 048º 52' 13'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 22' 37'' Northing 5413949
Easting 399027
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Gold Dyke showing is located 2.5 kilometres south of Caycuse on the southern shore of Cowichan Lake. The Eagle showing (092C 145) is just to the south.

The area is underlain by southeasterly dipping Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks. These are cut by numerous faults infilled with quartz-carbonate material.

Drilling in 1986 revealed pyrite, galena, sphalerite and trace chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite in drill core. Pyrite, 1 to 20 percent, and trace chalcopyrite is disseminated throughout the rock units. Generally associated with more siliceous zones, coarse sphalerite and galena (up to 4 per cent) occur disseminated in quartz-carbonate and siliceous veins. The siliceous veins are up to 0.10 metres wide. Associated with vuggy portions of quartz-carbonate veins, arsenopyrite occurs in irregular masses.

A sample from DDH 213-4, from the 78 to 80.47 metre interval, of quartz-carbonate veining in porphyritic andesite, assayed 1.389 grams per tonne gold, 2 grams per tonne silver, 1.5 per cent lead and 1.04 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 15821). This was the highest assay result.

Geochemistry suggests that mineralization may extend another 100 metres to the east and is open to the west.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *15821
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, p. 23; 1986, pp. 223-229; 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74; 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR MP MAP 1992-2
EMPR OF *1987-2; 1988-24; 1989-6; RGS 24, 1990
EMPR PF (In General File: B.C. Forest Products Road Map, Cowichan Lake Area, 1963; District Geologist photos, assays, map, 2001)
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963; 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

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