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File Created: 22-Feb-1990 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  12-May-1998 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name TEX AND ADA Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F077
Status Showing NTS Map 092F10E, 092F15E
Latitude 049º 44' 05'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 36' 52'' Northing 5510387
Easting 383665
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Tex and Ada occurrence area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) consisting of chloritic pillow basalts with local zones of brecciation, pillow breccias and occasional limestone lenses. Feldspar porphyritic dykes or sills intrude the brecciated basalt locally. The basalts are usually strongly fractured with hematite and manganese stain and epidote along the fractures.

Numerous small, discontinuous drusy quartz lenses and veinlets occur in the basalt and are mineralized with pyrite and occasional chalcopyrite. Locally, pyrite and chalcopyrite also occur at a brecciated contact between basalt and limestone. A rock chip sample from this location assayed 0.15 per cent copper (Assessment Report 12084). Elsewhere on the property, chalcopyrite occurs in a silicified breccia cut by a feldspar porphyritic dyke. A rock sample taken from trench dump material assayed up to 21 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14444).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *12084, 12085, *14444
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 257-265
EMPR OF 1990-3; 1988-28
GSC EC GEOL 3, pp. 86-102
GSC MAP 1386A; 17-1968
GSC MEM 58
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50
GSC SUM RPT 1924 Part A, pp. 106-144

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