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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  05-Jun-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name DAY, EDDY, QUINSTAR Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G061
Status Showing NTS Map 092G12W
Latitude 049º 40' 34'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 57' 51'' Northing 5503067
Easting 430438
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Zinc Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Low grade polymetallic mineralization is exposed along Highway 101, 4.3 kilometres north-northeast of the head of Pender Harbour on the Sechelt Peninsula.

At the Day showing, silicified shear zone up to 24 metres wide strikes north-northeast for 210 metres in granodiorite and quartz monzonite of Upper Jurassic age, within the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex.

The shear zone is mineralized with minor amounts of pyrite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite and sphalerite as disseminations and fracture-fillings. A chip sample taken across a width of 6.1 metres assayed 0.05 per cent copper and 0.004 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 3757, Map 2). An angled drill hole encountered a section grading 0.01 per cent copper and 0.134 per cent molybdenum between 4.36 and 4.57 metres depth (Assessment Report 7264, p. 2).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *3757, 3946, *5006, *7264
EMPR BULL 39
EMPR EXPL 1979-138
EMPR GEM 1972-278
EMPR PF (Chisholm, E.O. (1977): Geological Report on Quinstar Claim of Quinstar Oil Corporation)
GSC MAP 42-1963; 1069A; 1386A
GSC OF 611
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 95-101
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 8169

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