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MINFILE No 092E 092

File Created:	14-Dec-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:	17-Dec-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	RUFUS, WYN	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092E059
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092E09W
Latitude	049º 35' 46''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	126º 22' 08''	Northing	5497051
		Easting	690128
Commodities	Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Rufus occurrence is located on a west- facing steep ridge or slope of Mount Rufus.

The area is underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Mississippian to Lower Permian Buttle Lake Group. These have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite to the west and by dioritic rocks of the Paleozoic to Jurassic Westcoast Crystalline Complex to the east.

Locally, a gossanous zone hosts massive pyrrhotite and pyrite with flecks and strings of chalcopyrite. A grab sample (49404) assayed 0.43 per cent copper, 0.01 per cent lead, 0.01 per cent zinc, 4.8 grams per tonne silver and 1.6 grams per tonne gold (John S. Vincent (1981-12-01): 1981 Report on WYN claims).

In 1981, Dynamic Oil Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping; rock, soil and silt sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as Wyn claims.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1924-224 EMPR ASS RPT 10142 EMPR PF (John S. Vincent (1981-12-01): 1981 Report on WYN Claims) GSC MAP 1537A GSC OF 463 GSC P 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