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File Created: 13-Dec-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  29-Nov-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name SENTINAL PEAK, OK Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F024
Status Showing NTS Map 092F06W
Latitude 049º 15' 17'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 21' 32'' Northing 5458450
Easting 328354
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Sentinal Peak occurrence is located on the western slopes of Adder Mountain, approximately 1 kilometres west of the Kennedy River.

The area is underlain by andesite and basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. These are intruded by granodiorite of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. Some diorite is also exposed.

Disseminated pyrite and minor chalcopyrite occurs in intensely fractured and altered volcanics for a considerable distance south of the intrusive contact. Quartz veins containing pyrite and abundant molybdenite also cut the volcanics from 100 to 500 metres south of the contact. A sample (13913) of this quartz vein material assayed 0.15 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 12441).

A wide quartz vein, about 450 metres south-southwest of the contact, is reported to contain magnetite, pyrite, minor chalcopyrite and molybdenite.

In 1983 and 1984, the area was prospected as the Sentinal Peak claim by W. Guppy.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *12441
EMPR GEM *1970-287
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50; 72-44

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