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File Created: 04-Dec-1987 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  24-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name TOBY 2 Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F007
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 04' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 42' 05'' Northing 5437156
Easting 375745
Commodities Copper, Iron, Gold, Silver, Nickel, Cobalt Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Toby 2 showing is located just south of the Toby 1 showing (092F 337), approximately 16.5 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen basalts of the Vancouver Group, intruded by diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The basalts range from fine-grained to gabbroic in texture.

Mineralization is hosted in basalts and is considered to be of skarn origin. Chalcopyrite, magnetite and epidote generally occur along faults and shears. Best assays from one rock sample are 6.29 per cent copper and 38.57 per cent iron (Assessment Report 15957). Gold is slightly anomalous but is not significant in the skarn mineralization. However, a narrow pyritic quartz vein along a shear, apparently unassociated with the skarn event, assayed 2.88 grams per tonne gold and is genetically related to the Toby 1 showing (092F 337).

Soil sampling in 1988 indicated a limited extent to anomalous gold values. Mapping and sampling resulted in a few erratic high gold values associated with ankeritic shear zones and with minor quartz-pyrite veinlets in granitic rocks.

In 2009, P. Saulnier completed a prospecting program on the Corigan claim. A lone sample, from the area of the Toby 2 occurrence, assayed 0.01 parts per million platinum, 27.6 parts per million silver, 1250 parts per million nickel, 780 parts per million cobalt and 13.4 per cent copper (Assessment Report 30528).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 12809, 14873, *15957, *17948, *30528
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR EXPL 1984-155; 1986-167
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963
GSC OF 1272, 463
GSC P 68-50; 79-30
CIM BULL Vol. 83 No. 935, March 1990 pp. 125-135

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