MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092C 075

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	10-Jan-1991	by	Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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		NMI
Name	AB	Mining Division	Victoria
		BCGS Map	092C089
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C16W
Latitude	048º 51' 29''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 17' 35''	Northing	5412483
		Easting	405155
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell


Capsule Geology	The AB showing is located on the south side of Cowichan Lake, 1 mile south-southeast of the Island No.6 Highway. The area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Bonanaza Group which have been intruded by Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite granitic rocks. Chalcopyrite, pyrite and chalcocite are associated with the volcanic rocks. No other information is available.

Bibliography

EMPR BULL 37

EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, p. 23; 1986, pp. 223-229; 1987, pp. 81-91; 1989, pp. 503-510

EMPR GEM *1969-222

EMPR OF 1987-2; RGS 24, 1990

EMPR MP MAP 1992-2

EMPR PF (In General File: B.C. Forest Products Road Map, Cowichan Lake Area, 1963)

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