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File Created: 24-Mar-1988 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  14-Aug-2022 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name FACT Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F003
Status Showing NTS Map 092F03W
Latitude 049º 03' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 27' 50'' Northing 5436371
Easting 319987
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Fact skarn occurrence is located on an un-named creek flowing westerly into Kennedy Lake, approximately 1.1 kilometres east of the lake shore, and 14 kilometres northeast of Ucluelet, B.C.

The area is underlain by a 200 metre Tertiary andesite porphyry stock that cuts the limestone of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group) and granodiorite of the Jurassic Island Intrusions.

Locally, massive pyrrhotite-magnetite-chalcopyrite veins extend out from the porphyry into the limestone, along the contact. Minor bornite and black manganese minerals also occur. In 1986, a grab sample assayed 14.26 grams per tonne gold, 13.7 grams per tonne silver, 1.6 per cent copper and 35.3 per cent iron (Assessment Report 14704). In 2008, rock samples of mineralized limestone and vein material returned the following values:

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Sample No. Gold Silver Copper Iron

(grams per tonne) (grams per tonne) (per cent) (per cent)

830310 16.19 45 5.5 25.6

830313 7.61 15 2.4 11.8

830314 32.96 81 >10 35.7

830315 17.14 62 5.3 21.2

(Assessment Report 30537)

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One hundred fifty metres to the east, massive chalcopyrite occurs in fractures within limestone. In 1986, a grab sample assayed 8 per cent copper and 33.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14704).

In 1986, First Coast Min. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical sampling on the area as the Fact 1-2 claims. During 1995 through 2009, Consolidated Logan Mines Limited and later Logan Resources Limited, completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and an induced polarization survey on the Lucky and Redford properties.

In 2011, Logan Resources Ltd. and joint venture partner Ridgemont Iron Ore Corp. conducted ground geophysics (including Fact) and drilling over the Redford property. The 2011 Ridgemont diamond drill program, east of Draw Creek and the Brynnor Pit, consisted of 61 holes totalling 10, 234.58 metres utilizing 29 drill pads. The program coverage was categorized into three zones: the Main, East and North zones. The drill results from the East zone confirmed that magnetite mineralization was similar in strike and dip to that found in the Main zone.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14704, 25831, 27530, *30537, 31392, 33100, 33618
EMPR PF (Falconbridge assays, 1985; Maps, various property locations and geophysics; "Appendix II: Geology"; photos, 1985; Groves, W.D. (1985): Report on Kennedy Sulphides Group, for First Coast Minerals Corp.)
GSC MAP 17-1968
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50
EMPR PFD 7885, 7886, 7887, 7888, 7889, 7893, 7894, 7895

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