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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  10-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name ORMOND 6, CONTACT, FLORES, FLO Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092E040
Status Showing NTS Map 092E08E
Latitude 049º 18' 07'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 05' 05'' Northing 5465112
Easting 711925
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Ormond 6 occurrence is located west of Matilda Inlet, on the eastern coast of Flores Island.

The area is underlain by metamorphosed, locally foliated volcanic rocks, volcanoclastics and minor bands of garnetized limestone and chert of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic Westcoast Complex occur near diorite of the Eocene Catface Intrusions. A 2 by 17 kilometre dike-like granodiorite stock of the Eocene Catface Intrusions cuts Upper Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic mafic volcanic rocks of the West Coast Complex. The occurrence is poorly documented. The style of mineralization and location are uncertain.

Ministry of Mines Annual Report 1916, page 335, considers the Ormond 6 an extension of the Ormond 3, located 1 kilometre west, where lenses, disseminations, and fracture fillings of pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite occur in mafic volcanics, and in epidote-calcite-quartz breccia (see Ormond 3, 092E 012).

In 1962, Van-West Minerals completed a induced polarization survey on the area as the Contact and Ormond claims. In 1979 and 1981, Clear Mines completed programs of geological mapping, rock and soil sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area. In 1987 and 1988, Parallax Development completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping, an induced polarization survey and twenty-eight diamond drill holes, totalling 2538.1 metres on the area as the Contact and Au claims.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1906-186; 1915-287; 1916-334; 1929-375; 1931-168; 1932-204;
1935-G46; 1963-126; 1966-74; 1967-74
EMPR ASS RPT 465, 2317, 8056, *9658, 17428, 18965
EMPR EXPL 1980-162
EMPR GEM 1969-216; 1972-262
EMPR PF (Parallax Resources Prospectus, 1988; Various Maps; in
092E 012, Ormond 3)
GSC MEM 272
GSC MAP 1027A; 1537A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 72-44; 80-16
CIM TRANS Vol. 72-116
GCNL #111,#146, 1988
Carson, D.J.T., (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with
emphasis on the Relationship of Plutonic Rocks to Mineral Deposits,
Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa
EMPR PFD 650139

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