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File Created: 13-Jan-2022 by Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:  24-Jan-2022 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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Name HB SLIDE Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F021
Status Showing NTS Map 092F04W
Latitude 049º 14' 35'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 58' 03'' Northing 5458712
Easting 284015
Commodities Copper, Silver, Tungsten Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Pacific Rim
Capsule Geology

The HB SLIDE showing, discovered in 2018, is located 940 metres southwest of the HECATE BAY showing, on the southern tip of the Bedingfield Peninsula, 11 kilometres north-northwest of Tofino, B.C.

In 2018 a follow-up program of soil and rock sampling was undertaken by Catface Copper Mines Limited to expand the survey coverage in the area of the Hecate Bay Zone. In addition to extension of porphyry mineralization west of the Hecate Bay showing, a recent landslide exposed a small quartz-diorite outcrop with intense quartz-chalcopyrite-pyrite sheeted veins. The small exposure is strongly oxidized but contains biotite-silica alteration and elevated Mo, As, Au, Co, and W. Rock sample 11216 returned 1.61 per cent Cu, 11.9 grams per tonne Ag, and 0.13 per cent W; sample 11217 returned 3.89 per cent Cu and 121 grams per tonne Ag; and sample 11218 returned 4.69 per cent Cu, and 0.2 grams per tonne Ag. Samples were taken across veins for approximately 30cm. Veins were 3-5 centimetres in width and spaced approximately 20 centimetres apart.

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EMPR ASS RPT 540, 541, 580, 2454, 27773, 2725, 27773, 28725, 31052, 35293, 36435, *38067
EMPR GEM 1970-287; *1971-236-245; 1972-266
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