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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name CAMPBELL Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F016
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02W
Latitude 049º 11' 55'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 48' 21'' Northing 5451104
Easting 368446
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Campbell showing is located near the north-northwest base of Mount Hankin, south of Follinsbee Creek.

The area is underlain by pillow lava of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. Feldspar porphyry dykes and altered volcanics are reported nearby. The area to the east is underlain by diorite of the Jurassic Island Intrusions.

Mineralization in an old adit is reported to consist of Karmutsen volcanics hosting a siliceous band of rock, about 1.5 metres in width, that contains abundant copper stain. A grab sample assayed 0.19 per cent copper (Laanela, 1965).

About 500 metres east of the adit, at 240 metres elevation, a minor copper skarn occurs in volcanics. A 1.5 metre chip sample assayed 0.32 per cent copper (Laanela, 1965).

Fifty metres north of this skarn is a 30 centimetre wide quartz vein with magnetite and minor copper.

In the mid 1960’s, the area was explored by Gunnex Limited.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 61-74
EMPR PF (*Laanela, H. (1965): Mount Hankin Copper Showings (Mineral
Occurrence #48), Gunnex Limited)
GSC MAP 49-1963; 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50; 72-44

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