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File Created: 10-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  13-Jan-2022 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name CATFACE NE Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F031
Status Showing NTS Map 092F05W
Latitude 049º 21' 08'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 51' 39'' Northing 5470549
Easting 292244
Commodities Copper, Nickel, Gold Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Catface NE occurrence is located east of the Cypre River, approximately 9.2 kilometres northeast of the river mouth and approximately 22 kilometres north-northeast of Tofino, B.C.

The area is underlain primarily by meta-volcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Paleozoic Sicker Group. These are overlain by limestone of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Buttle Lake Group, which in turn are overlain by basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). See Bedingfield 18 (MINFILE 092F 227), for a more comprehensive geologic description.

Locally, andesite or basalt with quartz stringers and chlorite alteration hosts disseminated pyrite and fracture-controlled pyrite with chalcopyrite and bornite. In 2011, a rock sample (535053) assayed 0.702 per cent copper, 0.290 per cent nickel and 0.147 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 32940).

In 2010 and 2011, Catface Copper Mines completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling on a large area of the Bedingfield Peninsula, known as the Catface NE property. Follow-up sampling was done in 2012 within areas of the upper Cypre River drainage deemed prospective for Cu-Mo ± Au porphyry mineralization similar to that at the Catface deposit to the southwest. Malachite staining was observed higher up on the cliff face in one area of interest, but sampling it was not possible. A sample was taken at the bottom of the cliff face (1965403) and contained interested albeit not economic concentrations of copper (230.3 ppm Cu).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 31891, *32940, *33720
EMPR EXPL 1987-C147
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 61-74
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50; 79-30
CJES Vol.24, No.10, 1987, pp. 2047-2064
PERS COMM Massey, N. (1990)
Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with Emphasis on the Relationships of Mineral Deposits to Plutonic Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University
Isachsen, C. (1984): Geology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Westcoast Crystalline Complex and Related Rocks, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia

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