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File Created: 26-Apr-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)
Last Edit:  30-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name SPARK Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F008
Status Showing NTS Map 092F01W
Latitude 049º 02' 40'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 28' 18'' Northing 5433440
Easting 392456
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Spark showing is located 1.5 kilometres west of the southern tip of Fourth Lake.

The area is underlain by volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Devonian Nitinat Formation or possibly the Duck Lake Formation both of the Paleozoic Sicker Group.

The rocks comprise porphyritic hornblende andesite, black andesite, minor rhyolite, conglomerates, greywacke, banded chert and hornblende granodiorite of unknown affinity.

There are two sets of quartz veins in the area. The first set are very tight, closed veins which have been metamorphosed with the surrounding rocks. The veins in the second set, possibly related to the hornblende granodiorite intrusive, are vuggy and often contain pyrite and chalcopyrite.

In 1986, Baseline Resources completed a program of silt sampling and prospecting on the Spark claim.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *15286
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
GSC MAP 17-1968, 49-1963
GSC OF 463, 1272
GSC P 68-50, 79-30
CIM BULL Vol. 83 No. 935, March 1990 pp. 125-135
EMPR PFD 826281

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