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

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NMI
Name JACK S1 Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F013
Status Showing NTS Map 092F03W, 092F04E
Latitude 049º 08' 07'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 29' 52'' Northing 5445498
Easting 317810
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Jack S1 showing is located on the west side of the Sand River, approximately 2.5 kilometres north of the river mouth.

The area is underlain by tuffaceous rocks and minor chert of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) and is cut by a north trending fault.

Lenses of massive pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite up to 60 centimetres wide and a few metres long are exposed for a length of approximately fifty metres along a road. A sample (B-11) of massive sulphide material assayed 2.45 per cent copper, 47.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.17 grams per tonne gold with other samples yielding up to 0.725 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 11621).

In 1982 through 1984, E. Specogna completed programs of prospecting, a ground VLF magnetic survey and a 10 metres “winkie” drill hole on the area as the Jack S1 claim. Drilling intersected massive and disseminated iron and copper sulphides and garnet throughout its length. The last 60 centimetres of core was composed primarily of massive magnetite.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1968-103
EMPR ASS RPT *11621, 13591
EMPR BULL 55
EMPR EXPL 1983-203; 1885-C143
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 61-74
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50; 72-44
Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island With
Emphasis on the Relationships of Mineral Deposits to Plutonic
Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University

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