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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Jan-1991 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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NMI
Name SUDBURY PACIFIC, ECOLE, ECOOLE, HOGE, SEDDALL Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092C095
Status Showing NTS Map 092C14E
Latitude 048º 58' 05'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 03' 25'' Northing 5425944
Easting 349458
Commodities Nickel Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Sudbury Pacific showing is located just below mean sea level on Seddall Island, near Ecoole. The location is uncertain from the description given of the work done in 1917.

The area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group and carbonate rocks of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation, Vancouver Group. These have been intruded by granitic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

The showing comprises small lenses of pyrrhotite and associated arsenopyrite hosted in breccia material in a fractured and fissured zone within diorite (possibly granodiorite). This zone is about 1.2 or 1.5 metres wide. The showing can be examined only at extreme low tide.

Two samples, each taken across 0.20 metre of mineralized breccia material, assayed 0.35 (sample 1) and 1.9 per cent nickel (sample 2) (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1917, page 246).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1917-246
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR OF 1988-24; RGS 24, 1990
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

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