British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas and Responsible for Housing
News | The Premier Online | Ministries & Organizations | Job Opportunities | Main Index

MINFILE Home page  ARIS Home page  MINFILE Search page  Property File Search
Help Help
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-Jan-1991 by Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

Summary Help Help

NMI
Name WW Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092C097
Status Showing NTS Map 092C15W
Latitude 048º 59' 19'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 47' 21'' Northing 5427732
Easting 369109
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The WW showing is located beside the logging road north of Coleman Creek, 5.6 kilometres east of Alberni Inlet. The exact location is uncertain. The showing could possibly be part of the Copper King showing (092C 054).

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

Mineralization consists of chalcopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite hosted in a matrix of actinolite in a fault 0.6 metres wide. The fault has been traced for 30 metres to the south and occurs at a contact between andesite (hanging wall) and limestone (footwall). The showing plots in rocks mapped as Island Plutonic Suite (Geological Survey of Canada 821).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1963-124
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR PF (In 092C General File - Aeromagnetic Contour Map, Nitinat Lake Area, Noranda Mines Ltd., date unknown)
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

COPYRIGHT | DISCLAIMER | PRIVACY | ACCESSIBILITY