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File Created: 31-Jan-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  18-Feb-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name DS PIT Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C050
Status Showing NTS Map 092C08E
Latitude 048º 28' 34'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 08' 19'' Northing 5369846
Easting 415850
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Crescent
Capsule Geology

The DS Pit showing is exposed in a 15 by 20 metre logging road aggregate pit in the head waters of Rosemond Creek.

The area is underlain by basalt of the Eocene Metchosin volcanics. Locally, the volcanics are cut by a series of steeply dipping dike-like bodies of gabbro belonging to the Sooke Gabbro intrusions, thought to be comagmatic and coeval with the volcanics.

At the DS Pit zone the massive sulphide mineralization appears in tectonically brecciated basaltic tuffs and flows that are flooded with white to sky blue quartz acting as supporting matrix. Sulphide minerals of pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, native copper, pyrite, and bornite are associated with this type of mineralization.

In 2009, 15 samples from the showing had average assay values greater than 3.0 per cent copper and 3.0 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 31362).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 27232, 30545, *31362, 31997

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