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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 LOCALITY 6 Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F078
Status Showing NTS Map 092F09W
Latitude 049º 42' 43'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 28' 45'' Northing 5507654
Easting 393362
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Locality 6 occurrence is underlain by basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). The Marble Bay fault occurs just to the north.

Several small, old shafts are developed in basalt. Numerous pieces of massive magnetite-pyrrhotite rock with variable minor chalcopyrite occurs in the dump material. A composite grab sample from here assayed 0.35 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

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