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File Created: 26-Apr-1990 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  28-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MOUNT WESLEY Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F037
Status Showing NTS Map 092F07E
Latitude 049º 18' 47'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 39' 46'' Northing 5463588
Easting 379147
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Mount Wesley occurrence is located on the western flank of Mount Wesley, approximately 1.5 kilometres south of Horne Lake.

The area is underlain primarily by basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). On the western slope of the mountain, a large northwest trending lense of limestone of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Mount Mark Formation, (Buttle Lake Group) occurs. It is bounded on the east by basalt, and on the west by volcanics and sediments of the Devonian Sicker Group.

Locally, rusty, altered limestone was initially reported to host veins and some malachite specks (Laanela, 1965). Later prospecting located numerous quartz stringers from 1 to 10 centimetres wide and randomly oriented within rusty, fractured and sheared basalt. Some minute specks of chalcopyrite and bornite were present. This showing occurs in a fault zone exposed in a roadcut just east of the limestone lense.

In 1984, Villebon Resources completed a program of rock geochemical sampling and prospecting on the Wes claim. In 1985, Victoria Diego Resources Corp. completed a program of geological mapping and rock and soil sampling. Sampling failed to show any elevated values in copper, lead, zinc, silver or gold (Assessment Report 14443).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 13520, *14443
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1989-6
EMPR PF (*Laanela, H. (1965): Mount Wesley Copper Showing, Mineral
Occurrence #31, Gunnex Ltd.)
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963; 1386A
GSC OF 463; 1272
GSC P 68-50; 72-44; 79-30
Sutherland Brown, A. (1988): Mineral Resources of the Alberni
Region, EMPR, British Columbia Geoscience Research Program
(RG87-26)

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