MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092E 046

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

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		NMI
Name	K 15	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092E039
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092E08W
Latitude	049º 21' 41''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	126º 17' 27''	Northing	5471161
		Easting	696707
Commodities	Zinc, Silver	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The K 15 occurrence is located near the shoreline, west of Refuge Cove and approximately 2.7 kilometres north west of Sharp Point.

The area is underlain by quartzite and 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, the quartzite, which may be silicified andesite, contains a 6 metre wide northeast trending, steeply east dipping shear zone. Sphalerite, with unspecified skarn minerals, occur over 1.5 metres within the shear zone. A representative sample taken over 1.5 metres assayed 5.0 per cent zinc and 0.66 grams per tonne silver. A sample of high grade mineralization assayed 10.0 per cent zinc (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 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 11807