MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092F 201

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	29-Jan-1990	by	Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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		NMI
Name	FELBER	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092F042
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092F05W
Latitude	049º 25' 21''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 47' 38''	Northing	5478178
		Easting	297394
Commodities	Iron	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

A persistent lead of magnetite was located on the divide between Bedwell River and the first important tributary of Moyeha River coming in from the east (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 204). No other details of the deposit were reported.

The region is underlain by andesitic to basaltic volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. Intruding the stratigraphy and covering large areas are rocks of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite, which on Vancouver Island, vary in composition from gabbro to quartz monzonite but are mainly granodiorite and quartz diorite. A north trending band of limestone about 5 kilo- metres in length occurs, bounded on the west by Karmutsen rock and on the east by Island Plutonic Suite rock (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 463). This limestone has not been assigned to a group or formation.

Similar types of rocks found several kilometres to the southeast near Bedwell River are known to host skarn-type magnetite deposits.


Bibliography	EMPR BULL 3, 1917 EMPR OF 1988-28 GSC BULL 172 GSC EC GEOL #3, Vol.1 GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A GSC MEM *204, p. 25 GSC OF 463 GSC P 68-50; 71-36; 72-44; 79-30; 80-16 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Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island With Emphasis on the Relationships of Mineral Deposits to Plutonic Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University