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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-May-1990 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name COR 14, STAR OF THE WEST Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F007
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E, 092F02W
Latitude 049º 05' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 45' 15'' Northing 5439715
Easting 371948
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Cor 14 showing is located 4.5 kilometres east of Alberni Inlet, 16 kilometres south of Port Alberni.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) volcanics which are intruded by biotite- granodiorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The volcanics consist of greenstones, andesites and basalts. Quartz- carbonate veins mineralized with minor pyrite and chalcopyrite, cut both rock types (volcanics and intrusives) but are more common in the andesite.

A quartz-carbonate vein, up to 50 centimetres wide, occurs in brecciated greenstone. Pyrite, chalcopyrite and minor arsenopyrite are disseminated in the vein. The best assays from vein samples taken from this area were 0.9 grams per tonne gold and 0.09 per cent copper (Assessment Report 6676).

The vein has been exposed by trenching and a small adit, which are likely connected to work on the Star of the West showing (092F 215).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1895-647,653,654; 1897-569
EMPR ASS RPT *5400, *6676, 16522
EMPR BULL 1, 1896, p. 5; 37
EMPR EXPL 1975-94; 1977-109-110
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
EMPR PF (Phelps, G.B. (1974): Report in Prospectus, Focus Resources Ltd.; *Report (1975), in Prospectus-Focus Resources Ltd.)
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963
GSC OF 463; 1272
GSC P 68-50; 79-30
CIM BULL Vol. 83 No. 935, March 1990 pp. 125-135
GCNL #31,#224, 1975

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