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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KAMMAT CREEK, EMMA 21, COP CREEK, COP, SU 3, DAUGHTERS Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F018
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 11' 13'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 35' 06'' Northing 5449447
Easting 384506
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Nickel Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Q05 : Jasper
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Kammat Creek showing is located on the Emma 21 claim, 19 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.

The zone is characterized by intense carbonatization of mafic volcaniclastic rocks of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (Sicker Group) related to north- northeast trending faults which transect the area. Pyritic jasper with magnetite and minor black chert of the Devonian Duck Lake Formation (Sicker Group) also hosts mineralization in the area. A number of graphitic, quartz-carbonate flooded shear zones were sampled.

From 1983 through 1989, Au Resources Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical sampling, geological mapping, trenching, an induced polarization survey and twelve diamond drill holes, totalling 1511.8 metres, on the Emma claims. A sample of jasper, hematite and pyrite assayed 0.290 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17207). A sample of silicified volcaniclastic rock containing up to 90 per cent massive pyrite assayed 0.40 gram per tonne gold, 5.2 grams per tonne silver and 0.0103 per cent cobalt. Other samples contained up to 0.0217 per cent nickel.

The Cup Creek showing, possibly obliterated, consisted of minor amounts of native copper, malachite, azurite, and bornite exposed in volcanic rock in a road cut on the Su 3 claim. A sample from a 5 centimetre quartz vein cutting basalt and containing 20 per cent pyrite assayed 0.260 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17207).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 13875, 16799, *17207, 19471
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
EMPR PF (Mylar Overlay of Geochemical samples, 1968; Douglas, D.C.
(1968): Cup Creek Native Copper Find, Assay Results,
Miscellaneous Correspondence)
GSC MAP 17-1968, 49-1963
GSC OF 463; 1272
GSC P 68-50; 79-30
GCNL #115, 1984; #59,#189, 1985; #164, 1988
V STOCKWATCH June 17, Aug. 26, Oct. 7, 1987
Hudson, R. (1997): A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of
British Columbia, Vol. 1: Vancouver Island, p. 135

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