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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 ROAD SHOW Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F078
Status Showing NTS Map 092F09W
Latitude 049º 43' 26'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 28' 49'' Northing 5508984
Easting 393308
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Road Show occurrence is underlain by basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group).

Abundant magnetite with minor pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite occurs in foliated and locally banded basalt. A rock sample assayed 0.44 per cent copper (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
EMPR PFD 5276

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