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File Created: 22-Sep-1986 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  29-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name CIH, ROSEWALL-WATERLOO Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F046
Status Showing NTS Map 092F07W
Latitude 049º 26' 57'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 51' 30'' Northing 5479049
Easting 365307
Commodities Gold, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The CIH occurrence is located west of Waterloo Creek, approximately 3.5 kilometres north east of Mount Curran.

The area is underlain by basalts, breccias, diabase and gabbro of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. A fault zone, cutting through the strata, has resulted in the formation of a canyon 5 metres wide and 15 metres deep, with a creek flowing within. In this canyon an intrusive stockwork is found, ranging from felsite to rhyolite in composition. The width of the stockwork varies from 2.4 to 5 metres and outcrops in the canyon for about 100 metres. It is cut off at one end by a fault and at the other end by a "dyke of alteration rock".

This stockwork is mineralized with scattered to massive pyrite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, calcite, quartz, stibnite, erythrite and cinnabar. The "dyke of alteration rock" also carries scattered pyrite, chalcopyrite and cinnabar.

In 1986 and 1989, the area was rock sampled and prospected by B. Buskell as the CIH 1 claim. In 1989, two diamond drill holes, totalling 91.4 metres, were also completed. One sample assayed 7.54 grams per tonne gold, 0.2 per cent copper, and 23 per cent arsenic (Assessment Report 18747).

In 2008, Duke Mountain Resources Canada completed a program of prospecting and geochemical sampling on the area as the Rosewall-Waterloo property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14441, *18747, 30305
EMPR EXPL 1986-C175
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 61-74
EMPR PF (Property information, 1992; Property reports, 1990)
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Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University
EMPR PFD 7584, 902101

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