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File Created: 13-May-1986 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  30-Jul-1997 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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NMI
Name WALLY, WALLY 3, BACON, WINDANCER, TAJ Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G071
Status Showing NTS Map 092G13W
Latitude 049º 45' 10'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 57' 02'' Northing 5511578
Easting 431528
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Wally showing occurs on the north end of Sechelt Peninsula, 500 metres northwest of the north end of Waugh Lake.

A sulphidic quartz vein (Wally 3 Vein) is developed in hornblende biotite granodiorite of Upper Jurassic age, within the western margin of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The vein strikes 150 degrees for at least 12.5 metres and dips 56 degrees southwest. Widths vary from 0.65 to 1.8 metres. The vein is truncated to the northwest and possibly also to the southeast by strike-slip faults.

The vein is comprised of chalcopyrite, pyrite and molybdenite as disseminations, pods and bands up to 0.4 metre thick in a gangue of vuggy, milky white quartz. Total sulphide content varies from 8 to 20 per cent. These sulphides also extend into the wallrock, which exhibits sericite-epidote-chlorite alteration up to 0.3 metre from the vein. A grab sample of the vein assayed 6.65 grams per tonne gold, 65.5 grams per tonne silver and 2.96 per cent copper (Assessment Report 14264, Appendix, Sample 1).

A second quartz vein (Wally 3a Vein), striking 130 degrees for 3 metres and dipping 30 to 50 degrees southwest, outcrops 150 metres south of the previous vein, within hornblende biotite quartz diorite. The vein pinches and swells to a width of 0.3 metre. Pyrite, molybdenite and chalcopyrite occur along fractures and as disseminations in the vein.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 11334, 12451, *14264, 14736, *15577, *18418, 23354, 24069
EMPR BULL 39
GSC MAP 42-1963; 1069A; 1386A
GSC OF 611
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 95-101
GCNL #197, 1984; #16,#18,#23,#227, 1985
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 8105, 831034, 680573

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