MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092F 594

File Created:	31-Jan-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:	18-Feb-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	WALLACE, WALLACE-CREEK	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092F042
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092F05E
Latitude	049º 25' 20''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 43' 20''	Northing	5477957
		Easting	302590
Commodities	Gold, Silver	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Wallace-Creek showing is located above a former logging road bridge on the Bedwell River on an unnamed creek flowing west off of Ursus Mountain.

The area is underlain by volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group), which are intruded by granitic rock of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. In the Bedwell River area the Karmutsen rocks consist of fine-grained andesites and black or dark green basalts. The Jurassic plutonic rocks on Vancouver Island vary in composition from gabbro to quartz monzonite but are mainly granodiorite and quartz diorite.

Locally, narrow quartz veins are reported to contain gold and silver mineralization (Wallace, C. (1970-07-08): Notes on the Wallace Property).


Bibliography	EMPR PF (Wallace, C. (1970-07-08): Notes on the Wallace Property) EMPR PFD 800281