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File Created: 22-Feb-1988 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  27-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name DOUGLAS Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F017
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 07' 04'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 39' 05'' Northing 5441862
Easting 379501
Commodities Gold, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Douglas showing is located to the southeast of Douglas Peak, about 19 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.

Basaltic flows and pillow basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) are underlain by a complexly inter- layered succession of volcanics and sediments of the Paleozoic Sicker and Mississippian to Lower Permian Buttle Lake groups. In the area, the rocks comprise basaltic flows, agglomerates and bedded tuffs of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (Myra Formation), Sicker Group.

Gold-copper mineralization (likely pyrite and chalcopyrite) occurs in basalts. A sample assayed 28.1 grams per tonne gold and 0.9 per cent copper (George Cross News Letter #96, 1985).

In 2010, the area was staked by P. Saulnier as the Lime claims. The next year a program of prospecting and geochemical sampling was completed.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 9126, *13711, 32685
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR EXPL 1985-141
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963
GSC OF 463; 1963
GSC P 68-50
CIM BULL Vol. 83 No. 935, March 1990, pp. 125-135
GCNL #96, 1985
EMPR PFD 830774

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