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File Created: 20-Jan-2021 by Nicole Barlow (NB)
Last Edit:  16-Nov-2022 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name INTENTION Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C099
Status Showing NTS Map 092C16W
Latitude 048º 55' 32'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 18' 20'' Northing 5420013
Easting 404371
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Cobalt Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Intention occurrence is located on the Northwest side of Wardroper Creek, approximately 2.5 km north of Cowichan Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by granodiorite of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and hornfelsed basalt, andesite and rhyolite tuff of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation, (Sicker Group). The granodiorite is cut by narrow aplite and basalt dykes.

Locally, mineralization is associated with basalt hosting chalcopyrite. In 2019, D.M. Arbic collected two rock samples, 01-A assayed 1.185 gram per tonne gold, 19.9 gram per tonne silver, 0.3829 per cent copper, and 0.0535 per cent cobalt, while another nearby sample 02-a assayed 0.12 gram per tonne gold and 4.4 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 38443).

Work History

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby Paula (092C 126) occurrence and a completed exploration history can be found there.

In 2019 D.M. Arbic completed a small rock sampling program.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *38443
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR EXPL 1983-189
EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 223-229; 1987, pp. 81-91; 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR MP MAP 1992-2
EMPR OF 1987-2; RGS 24, 1990
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

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