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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  25-Jan-1990 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 092F9 Cu2
Name JUNEAU, OHM, MORORE, KIM, BAYVIEW, SHERWIN Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F059
Status Prospect NTS Map 092F09W
Latitude 049º 30' 19'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 20' 48'' Northing 5484499
Easting 402503
Commodities Gold, Copper, Silver Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

Lasqueti Island is dominated by dark, grey-green amygdaloidal and agglomeratic basalt of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation. Regional bedding strikes northwest and dips moderately northeast. The volcanic rocks are locally intruded in the False Bay area by a north-northeast trending stock of Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite quartz diorite. Narrow shear zones along the stock margins are common and locally contain minor quartz veining. Some hornfelsing of the basalt is also common along the quartz diorite contact but is not significant on a large scale.

Seams of massive sulphide mineralization in the area is often associated with the shear zones along the quartz diorite contact. These zones are narrow, less than 2 metres wide, strike from 010 to 040 degrees and are evident in basalt and quartz diorite.

The Juneau occurrence area is underlain by locally altered basalt of the Karmutsen Formation in contact with quartz diorite of the Island Plutonic Suite. At the contact, a short adit (Ohm adit) explores narrow vertical shear zones striking 020 degrees and hosting massive pyrite and chalcopyrite. Quartz veining also occurs with massive to disseminated chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization. A sample from the adit assayed 0.04 per cent copper, 1.92 grams per tonne gold and 4.5 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 16086). Quartz veins hosted in basalt occur 200 metres to the north in a gravel pit.

Approximately 600 metres along a north-northeast strike from the Ohm adit, several pits and trenches which historically explored 3 narrow, parallel quartz veins striking 035 degrees occur. The veins are hosted in shear zones in quartz diorite near the contact with basalt and contain disseminated chalcopyrite, chalcocite, bornite and pyrite. The easternmost vein trends onto the Venus property (092F 131) to the east. Recent rock samples assayed 0.24 per cent copper, 6.07 grams per tonne gold and 21.9 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 16086).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1923-A256,A388; 1924-B249; *1926-C318-C320; 1927-C361; 1928- C385; 1929-C394; 1930-A308; 1933-A257
EMPR ASS RPT 950, 1716, *16086
EMPR BULL 1 (1932), pp. 142,143; 20 Part IV, p. 16
EMPR EXPL 1987-C152
EMPR GEM 1969-214; 1974-179
EMPR PF (*Claim map (1923); see Old Bill, 092F 134 - *Undated claim maps; see St. Joseph, 092F 132 - *Various undated claim maps, Statement of Material Facts, Dornoch International Inc. October 1, 1987 (Hawkins, T.G. (1987): Revised report on the Raven and Golden claims))
EMR MP CORPFILE (Anchor Mines Ltd.(NPL); Pacific Gold Mines, Limited; Santiago Mines, Limited)
GSC MAP 1386A; 17-1968
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50
GSC SUM RPT *1921 Part A, pp. 50-58
GCNL #196, 1982
Hudson, R. (1997): A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia, Vol. 1: Vancouver Island, p. 150
EMPR PFD 7314, 7315, 7316

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