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File Created: 19-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  23-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name NORTH BACON, BACON, BACON LAKE Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F092
Status Showing NTS Map 092F13E
Latitude 049º 58' 50'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 55' 01'' Northing 5540547
Easting 290882
Commodities Iron, Magnetite, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The North Bacon occurrence is located on the northern slopes of a small hill, located approximately 800 metres northeast of the northern end of Bacon Lake.

The area is underlain by Karmutsen Formation volcanics that are overlain by Quatsino Formation limestone, both of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. These in turn are overlain by volcanics of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. Plutonic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite intrude these rocks and vary in composition from gabbro to quartz monzonite but are mainly granodiorite and quartz diorite.

Locally, a silicified andesite with manganese staining hosts course crystals of chalcopyrite and sphalerite. In 1989, a sample (B-89-14) of mineralized andesite assayed 0.688 per cent copper and 1.126 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 18946).

Massive magnetite with disseminated pyrite outcrops approximately 100 metres to the east. In 1989, a sample (B-89-15) of massive magnetite assayed 43.8 per cent iron (Assessment Report 18946).

In 1987, R. Tessolini prospected the area as the Bacon claims. In 1989, M. Sawiuk completed a program of geological mapping, rock sampling and a ground magnetometer survey on the area. In 1997, IMA Resources Corporation completed a program of geochemical sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Bacon 1-4 claims. During 2009 through 2013, Western GateWay Minerals explored the area as part of the Bacon Lake property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 16321, 17395, *18946, 21193, 25513, 31508, 32805, 33963
EMPR BULL 3, 1917
EMPR EXPL 1987-C154; 1988-C92
EMPR P 1989-3
EMPR PF (Hings, D.L. (1951): Report on Preliminary Magnetic Survey of of the East Bacon Lake Area, B.C. Iron Ore Development Co. Ltd.; Bacon Lake Property drill logs, B.C. Iron Ore Development Co. Ltd., Jan.3, 1952; McDougall, J.J. (1961): Preliminary Report on the Bacon Lake and Willy Iron Prospects; McDougall, J.J. (1961): Report on Bacon Lake Magnetite (including drill logs on the Rock deposit); Magnetic Suvey map (1 inch=100 feet), Noranda, 1962)
GSC BULL 172
GSC EC GEOL #3, Vol.1, pp. 78-79
GSC MAP 2-1965; 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50; 71-36; 72-44
GSC SUM RPT 1930, Part A
CANMET RPT #47
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
Falconbridge File

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