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File Created: 31-Mar-2016 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  05-Apr-2016 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name GILLESPIE, O.G.M. 104 Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C088
Status Showing NTS Map 092C15E
Latitude 048º 53' 07'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 33' 21'' Northing 5415870
Easting 385943
Commodities Copper Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The O.G.M. 104 (Gillespie) occurrence is located near Granite Creek, approximately 1 kilometre southeast of its creek mouth on the Nitinat River

The area is underlain by extensively faulted rocks of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group and the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. The basal Vancouver Group sequence is comprised of basalt flows, breccias and tuffs of the Karmutsen Formation overlain by Quatsino Formation limestone, which is in turn overlain by black argillites of the Parsons Bay Formation. The overlying Bonanza Group consists of a sequence of argillites, cherts, cherty tuffs, volcanic and/or sedimentary breccias, sandstones and basaltic to rhyolitic flows.

The entire package of rocks has been broadly to tightly folded with fold axes generally trending northwest, and has been intruded by granodioritic and feldspar porphyritic dikes.

Locally, magnetite-chalcopyrite skarn zones in limestone have been explored by two short tunnels. Assays up to 4 per cent copper over 1.5 metres are reported from a pit, while 30 metres to the east, in the river canyon, a trench assayed 4.6 per cent copper over 1.5 metres (Assessment Report 00642).

In 1964, Avallin Mines completed a program of soil sampling and geological mapping on the area as the O.G.M. claims. In 1969, Quintana Minerals completed a program of regional soil sampling and geological mapping.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *642, 2163
EMPR EXPL 1976-E109,E110
EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, p. 23; 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR GEM 1969-221
EMPR OF 1988-24; RGS 24, 1990
EMPR PF (In 092C General File - Aeromagnetic Contour Map, Nitinat Lake Area, Noranda Mines Ltd., date unknown; Claim and location map, 1955; Self-Potential Survey map, 1955)
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463; 821; 1272
GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30

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