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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  08-Jun-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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Name FANG Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G081
Status Showing NTS Map 092G13W
Latitude 049º 53' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 52' 29'' Northing 5526922
Easting 437171
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Fang showing is located just north of Perkett Creek on Jervis Inlet.

The region is underlain by Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex quartz monzonite, quartz diorite and diorite near the contact with volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group. The Gambier Group comprises andesitic to rhyodacite flows and pyroclastics, greenstone, argillite, minor conglomerate, limestone and schist. Zones of faulting and shearing are locally common near intrusive contacts. These zones exhibit alteration and replacement mineralization.

The main mineralized zone occurs near the contact between quartz feldspar porphyry and volcanic rocks. The zone, sheared and oxidiz- ed, contains pyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. Float containing chalcopyrite, malachite and pyrrhotite have been located in the area (one sample assayed 8.12 per cent copper, 130.26 grams per tonne silver and 0.686 grams per tonne gold).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1918-F281
EMPR ASS RPT *3613
EMPR BULL 39
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-178
EMPR GEM 1972-278
EMPR PF (Thunder Valley Mines Ltd., Prospectus Aug., 1971)
GSC MAP 42-1963; 1069A; 1386A
GSC OF 611
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 95-107
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 8175

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