MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092E 038

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	25-May-1989	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI
Name	HIGH BOY	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092E050
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092E08E
Latitude	049º 27' 17''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	126º 02' 23''	Northing	5482220
		Easting	714530
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

Shelter Inlet is underlain by high grade metamorphic rocks of the Upper Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic West Coast Complex. These metamorphic rocks are intruded by granodiorite of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

The High Boy occurrence is reported to consist of three parallel quartz-veins exposed for 15 metres along a bluff (Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 204, page 25). The veins strike north and dip 58 degrees west. The upper most vein is 5 to 8 centimetres wide and shows ribboned, rusty quartz. The two lower veins are separated by 45 centimetres of chloritized granodiorite and have widths of 10 and 15 centimetres, respectively.

The principal mineral is pyrite. A sample is reported to have assayed $6.50 in gold (Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 204, page 25), equivalent to 6.6 grams per tonne.


Bibliography	GSC MAP 1537A GSC MEM *204-25 GSC OF 463 GSC P 72-44; 80-16 CIM TRANS VOL 72-116 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