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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Nov-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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NMI
Name WOLF, REN, MEAD, FOX Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C050
Status Showing NTS Map 092C08E
Latitude 048º 27' 01'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 06' 01'' Northing 5366933
Easting 418642
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Crescent
Capsule Geology

The Wolf occurrence is located on Pete Wolf Creek, approximately 4.5 kilometres northwest of the community of Jordan River.

The area is underlain by Eocene Metchosin Volcanics consisting of bedded basaltic tuffs interbedded with pillow and amygdaloidal basaltic flows striking easterly and dipping 20 to 80 degrees to the north. These are sheared, altered and brecciated but show very little folding. The volcanics are cut by a series of steeply dipping gabbro dikes, possibly comagmatic and coeval with the volcanics. The largest dike is 800 metres wide, the remainder are from 30 to 50 metres wide. The gabbros are also brecciated, sheared and altered.

Pyrite and pyrrhotite are the predominant sulphide minerals with minor associated chalcopyrite. Small amounts of bornite and flecks of native copper are present. Magnetite has been found concentrated in the gabbro at a few locations. The sulphides occur in highest concentrations in areas of most intense shearing, and the largest of the zones usually are found close to gabbro or mafic dykes and are associated with a system of feldspathic stringers with or without free quartz. The sulphides sometimes occur in a disseminated form but mostly as cleavage films or in elongated blebs controlled by the orientation of the shear zone. None of the zones could be traced for more than 100 metre or so, and very seldom over widths greater than 5 metres.

The showing was originally located in the 1960's by Mucsn Explorations. From 1972 to 1979, Chatham Resources, later Westmount Resources, completed programs of geochemical and geophysical surveys and geological mapping. In 2003, the area was claimed and explored under the Karen property by Emerald Fields Resources Corporation.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2229, 4104, 4751, 6272, 7814, 27280
EMPR EXPL 2002-29-40
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 525-527; 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR GEM 1972-241; 1973-225; 1974-165; 1977-E106
EMPR OF RGS 24
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 1998-26 by Richard Strong)
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463; 821
GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 77-1A; 79-30

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