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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 BW 4 Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F065
Status Showing NTS Map 092F11E
Latitude 049º 40' 02'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 10' 38'' Northing 5503908
Easting 342897
Commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The BW 4 occurrence is located south of Wattaway Creek, approximately 500 metres north of Wood Mountain Ski Park.

The area is underlain by intermediate to mafic basalts, volcanic tuffs and associated breccias, all of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). The basalt is typically fine-grained and porphyritic and contains abundant thin quartz stringers.

Locally, an 8 metre wide gossanous zone with interlaced silicified chlorite breccia and carbonate breccia hosts pyrite, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite(?) mineralization. In 1988, a sample (BW 1) assayed 1.33 grams per tonne gold, 12.9 grams per tonne silver, 0.175 per cent zinc and 2.07 per cent copper (Assessment Report 17093).

In 1988, Nation River Resources completed a program of prospecting, rock and soil sampling and a ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the BW 4 claim.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *17093
EMPR EXPL 1988-C91
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 61-74
GSC MAP 2-1965; 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50; 72-44

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