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File Created: 30-Nov-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  04-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name R95-5, COLOUR, PRIME STOCK Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F035
Status Showing NTS Map 092F06E
Latitude 049º 18' 05'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 00' 48'' Northing 5462911
Easting 353635
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The R95-5 occurrence is located on a ridge separating Sproat and Great Central lakes, approximately 3 kilometres northwest of Ward Lake.

The area is underlain by basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) crosscut by a number of northwest trending granodiorite or quartz diorite dikes. The basalt hosts small quartz veins which occur in a silicified and altered shear zone.

Locally, outcrops of basalt and andesite are stained with malachite and azurite with disseminated pyrite and minor chalcopyrite along fractures and shears. In 1995, a grab sample (R95-5) assayed 0.355 per cent copper and 0.33 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 24059).

During 1991 through 1998, J. Telegus completed programs of prospecting and geochemical sampling on the area as the Colour, Prime Stock and Alberni North claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 21683, *24059, 25690
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50

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