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MINFILE No  092GNW022
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Jun-1990 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name VENUS Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G064
Status Showing NTS Map 092G11E
Latitude 049º 38' 32'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 12' 56'' Northing 5498875
Easting 484437
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Venus occurrence, located just north of the village of Britannia Beach, is underlain by granodiorite of the Cenozoic- Mesozoic Coast Plutonic Complex. Trenches expose chalcopyrite and molybdenite fracture-fillings in quartz porphyry.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-178
EMPR GEM *1969-194
GSC MAP 42-1963; 1386A
GSC MEM 158
GSC OF 611
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195; 90-1F, pp. 95-107
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
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