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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Oct-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name ROBIN 1-2, MANDARIN, KETA, TRI Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F034
Status Showing NTS Map 092F06W
Latitude 049º 18' 26'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 20' 30'' Northing 5464247
Easting 329788
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Robin occurrence located south of the Tay River, approximately 2.7 kilometres north of Sutton Pass.

The area is underlain by highly chloritized, massive and commonly porphyritic and amygdaloidal basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). The basalt contains thin interbeds of grey limestone and the sequence is intruded by quartz diorite of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. Contacts between the volcanic and intrusive rocks are usually faults trending north, east or northwest with steep dips. Occasionally tremolite skarn is developed near limestone-quartz diorite contacts with associated carbonate veining. The skarn hosts small (1 to 5 centimetres) sections of magnetite, pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization.

Locally, garnet-diopside skarn is evident. Shear zones within the basalt and quartz diorite, and basalt-quartz diorite contacts host thin (less than 50 centimetres) zones of quartz or carbonate veins with minor pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization.

The Robin claims were initially staked in 1970 by Hudson Bay Exploration. In 1971 through 1980, a series of small programs of soil sampling, prospecting, geological mapping and minor trenching were conducted by Golden Hinde Mines. In 1987, Area Explorations and Snowfield Resources completed a preliminary program of rock and soil sampling. In 2007, the area was prospected by Perovic Enterprises as the Tay-Christina property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2699, 3073, 4926, 5482, 6117, *17021, 29341
EMPR EXPL 1975-E99; 1976-E114; 1977-E111; 1978-E129; 1979-131
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74
EMPR GEM 1970-287; 1971-248; 1974-177
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50

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