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File Created: 15-Mar-1990 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  12-May-1998 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name LUCKY LEAD Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F078
Status Showing NTS Map 092F09W
Latitude 049º 43' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 27' 37'' Northing 5509975
Easting 394770
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Lucky Lead occurrence is underlain by amygdaloidal basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) near a narrow, elongate diorite intrusive which outcrops along the coast.

A short adit is developed in basalt along a sulphide-bearing shear zone which also cuts a narrow mafic dyke. The shear zone is subvertical and strikes 090 to 100 degrees. Several thin shears, up to 5 centimetres wide and containing abundant pyrite and chalcopyrite, form the 2 metre wide shear at the adit portal. A composite rock sample of two distinct shears, each approximately 20 centimetres wide, which are exposed along the roof of the adit, assayed 0.4 per cent copper, 5.03 grams per tonne gold and 10.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17947).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *17947, 18087
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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