MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092GSW006

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	20-Dec-1989	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI	092G6 Cu3
Name	BOWEN ISLAND, GARDNER BAY, ISLANDER (L. 3370)	Mining Division	Vancouver
		BCGS Map	092G044
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092G06W
Latitude	049º 24' 04''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	123º 23' 04''	Northing	5472118
		Easting	472107
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

Two shafts were sunk on a small copper prospect in Gardner Bay, on the west side of Bowen Island. The main shaft is reported to have intersected a thin seam of bornite along a shear zone in metavolcanic rocks of the pre-Jurassic Bowen Island Group. The shaft was reported to be about 23 metres deep and is now flooded. The reported mineral- ized showing has not been verified.

A limited amount of ore was taken, and shipped, from a stope 9 metres long (Property File - Brewer, M. 1907).

Bibliography

EMPR PF (Brewer, M. (1907) Memorandum on the Bowen Island Copper Company's Property, Bowen Island B.C.; Roddick, J.A. (c. 1956): Geology of Vancouver and Coquitlam Map Area - in 092GSW006)

GSC MAP 42-1963; 1069A; 1152A; 1386A

GSC MEM 335

GSC OF 611

GSC P *53-28, p. 6

Armstrong, J.E. (1990): Vancouver Geology, Geological Association of Canada, Cordilleran Section

Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia

EMPR PFD 8274, 881286, 881287