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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  29-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name TYBER, INDEPENDENT Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F028
Status Prospect NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 12' 12'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 32' 08'' Northing 5451195
Easting 388145
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Tyber occurrence is located on the south eastern slopes of Mount Arrowsmith, approximately 1.4 kilometres south of Arrowsmith Lake.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) volcanic rocks consisting of andesitic to basaltic amygdaloidal and porphyritic massive flows, pillow breccia, minor tuff and a few thin interlava limestones. The stratigraphy is nearly flat-lying and is cut by at least one regional fault and by numerous fracture and shear zones.

The occurrence area contains a number of separate but genetically related quartz vein systems hosted in shear and fracture zones. The vein systems vary in character from anastomosing to lensoidal and en echelon and range from hairline to approximately 1.5 metres in width. They are traceable in adits and on the surface for lengths from less than a metre to tens of metres. The gangue consists of mainly quartz matrix with wallrock fragments and varied amounts of carbonate.

Mineralization is predominantly pyrite and/or chalcopyrite with locally abundant sphalerite and widely scattered pods of chalcocite. Locally galena is significant and pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, magnetite and bornite have been observed. The sulphide mineralization is spotty, occurring in small massive pods and in clusters of aggregates of grains with zones that are pyrite-rich, chalcopyrite-rich or sphalerite-rich.

In 1980, E. Stevens prospected the area. The following year, Tyber Resources completed a program soil sampling and ground magnetic surveys. In 1986, a program of geochemical sampling was completed by E. Stevens and K. Northcote. The highest assays from channel samples taken across veins and wallrock contained 16 per cent copper, 3.84 per cent zinc, 402.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.51 per cent lead and 0.1 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 15171).

Previous workings included several open cuts and two adits.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1916-K326
EMPR ASS RPT 9432, *10395, *15171
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74
EMPR PF (092F General File - Rpt. by H. Laanela (1966): Gunnex Ltd.,
Occurrence #20)
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50
EMPR PFD 826207

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