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File Created: 20-Mar-1990 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  12-May-1998 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name LINDSAY FR. (L.50), TEXADA (L.48) Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F078
Status Showing NTS Map 092F10E
Latitude 049º 44' 31'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 35' 11'' Northing 5511147
Easting 385703
Commodities Gold, Copper, Lead Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Lindsay Fr. occurrence area is underlain by pillow basalt breccias and amygdaloidal basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) close to the northern extension of the Holly fault.

A small quartz vein 10 to 25 centimetres wide, occurs in a brecciated shear zone striking 240 degrees. Mineralization consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite and trace galena. Another similar shear zone in pillow basalt breccias hosts another small, pyritic quartz vein with rare native gold.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1897-563
EMPR OF 1990-3; 1988-28
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 257-265
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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