MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092K 049

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	08-Dec-1988	by	Sandra E. Dumais (SED)

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		NMI
Name	CORTES ISLAND, CARRINGTON BAY	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092K016
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092K02W
Latitude	050º 07' 50''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 59' 15''	Northing	5555038
		Easting	357953
Commodities	Molybdenum	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Wrangell

Capsule Geology

"At a point just east of Carrington Bay an obscure appearance of stratification occurs with a strike of about 333 degrees and small quantities of molybdenite were found in quartz veins" (Geological Survey of Canada Annual Report 1886, page 23B). Stratification may refer to the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation mapped in the area and enclosed by granitic rocks of the Juro-Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 480).


Bibliography	EMPR BULL 9 (1940) p. 85 GSC ANN RPT 1886, p. 23B GSC EC GEOL 20, p. 256 GSC MAP 1386A GSC OF 480