MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092C 055

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	18-Jan-1991	by	Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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		NMI
Name	COPPER PRINCE, COPPER PRINCE 1-3	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092C097
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C15W
Latitude	048º 59' 19''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 47' 36''	Northing	5427739
		Easting	368804
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Copper Prince is located 3.2 kilometres east of Alberni Inlet near the logging road on the north side of Coleman Creek. The exact location is uncertain from the description (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1928, page 366).

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group) limestones and Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics. These are intruded by granitic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

A small chalcopyrite vein occurs in a fissure in granodiorite. The vein has been traced for several hundred metres. Previous work comprises many opencuts with "good grade" chaclopyrite reported. No other information is available.

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1928-366

EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 503-510

EMPR OF 1988-24; RGS 24, 1990

EMPR PF (In 092C General File - Aeromagnetic Contour Map, Nitinat Lake Area, Noranda Mines Ltd., date unknown)

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