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File Created: 04-Jun-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name TRINITY Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G051
Status Showing NTS Map 092G12W
Latitude 049º 33' 52'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 59' 19'' Northing 5490675
Easting 428512
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

At the Trinity showing, pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization is exposed over a 60 by 60 metre area along a road cut 100 metres east of Highway 101, 5.8 kilometres north-northeast of the head of Pender Harbour on the Sechelt Peninsula. The mineralization is hosted in a roof pendant of basalts and andesites of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) engulfed in diorite and granodiorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 9949
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

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