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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name K 18 Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092E039
Status Showing NTS Map 092E08W
Latitude 049º 21' 47'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 17' 45'' Northing 5471333
Easting 696337
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The K 18 occurrence is located near the shoreline, west of Refuge Cove and approximately 3.1 kilometres north west of Sharp Point.

The area is underlain by high grade metamorphic volcanic rocks of the Paleozoic- Mesozoic Westcoast Complex (Geological Survey of Canada, Map 1537A). These have been intruded by diorite of the Eocene Catface Intrusions.

Locally, an epidote-altered andesite hosts a 6 to 10 metre wide shear zone striking northwest and dipping steeply east. It has been traced for at least 30 metres. Chalcopyrite occurs within the zone as stringers and lenses up to 10 centimetres wide. A selected sample assayed 0.6 per cent copper and 0.55 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 3750).

In 1972, Florex Mining completed a program of geological mapping, rock and soil sampling and a ground magnetic survey on the area as the K claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *3750
EMPR GEM 1972-261
GSC MAP 1537A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 53-17; 72-44; 80-16
EMPR PFD 11807

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