MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092C 070

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	17-Jan-1991	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	KLANAWA AND CANYON	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092C087
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C15E
Latitude	048º 51' 05''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 43' 35''	Northing	5412373
		Easting	373355
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Klanawa and Canyon occurrence area is near major lineaments separating Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics from Early to Middle Jurassic quartz diorite of the Island Plutonic Suite. In 1931, some "good chalcopyrite ore" was brought in from the showing and was reported to occur across a width of 9 metres. The mineralization is inferred to be hosted in a shear zone in Bonanza Group volcanics.

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1931-A165

EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, p. 23; 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