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File Created: 10-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  17-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name GOOD FRIDAY 6 Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F021
Status Showing NTS Map 092F05W
Latitude 049º 16' 57'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 59' 51'' Northing 5463184
Easting 282013
Commodities Gold, Copper, Zinc, Iron Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Good Friday 6 occurrence is located on a southwestern facing slope, east of Bawden Bay.

The area is underlain predominantly by a northwest- trending sequence of mafic volcanics and sediments of the Paleozoic Sicker Group. These rocks are intruded by Paleozoic or Triassic diabasic sills and feldspar porphyritic dikes of possible Tertiary age. Gneisses, hornfelsic basalts and amphibolites of the pre-Jurassic Westcoast Complex are in gradational contact.

Locally, a pyrrhotitic, mafic intrusive in contact with limestone forms a skarn zone. The zone contains calcite, magnetite and actinolite with blebs and disseminations of chalcopyrite, bornite and azurite. In 1987, a grab sample (1019) of mineralized skarn yielded 0.34 gram per tonne gold, 0.114 per cent copper, 0.055 per cent zinc and 21.69 per cent iron (Assessment Report 17098).

In 1969 and 1971, Fort Reliance Minerals completed programs of geological mapping, silt and soil sampling and a ground magnetic survey on the area as the PW 15 and PW 16 claims. This work identified three (geochemical and geophysical) anomalous areas on and around Bawden Bay (Assessment Report 3132). In 1987, Suntac Minerals completed a program of rock and soil sampling and a ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Good Friday claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2116, *3132, *17098
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Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island With Emphasis on the Relationships of Mineral Deposits to Plutonic Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University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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