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File Created: 06-Jun-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name BACON, RUBY LAKE Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G071
Status Showing NTS Map 092G12W
Latitude 049º 43' 51'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 59' 26'' Northing 5509175
Easting 428615
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Copper mineralization is exposed for 250 metres along Highway 101, on the east side of Ruby Lake of the Sechelt Peninsula.

The Bacon showing is hosted in a roof pendant of mafic flows, pyroclastics, chert and epidote skarn of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) engulfed in diorite and quartz diorite of Upper Jurassic age within the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. Bedding strikes 040 degrees and dips 75 degrees northwest.

Pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite occur as fracture-infillings along conjugate joints and as blebs in the roof pendant rocks. Several grab samples assayed between 0.21 and 0.55 per cent copper (Assessment Report 11333, page 2). A shear zone in the vicinity is reported to contain pyrite and molybdenite.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 11333
EMPR BULL 39
EMPR PF (Fleming, D.B. (1983): Geological Assessment and Work Proposal - Bacon Claims)
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 820752

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