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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name WR, WHITE RIVER Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092K011
Status Showing NTS Map 092K04W
Latitude 050º 09' 51'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 59' 43'' Northing 5561179
Easting 286086
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The WR showing is located on the west bank of the White River approximately 20 kilometres south of its confluence with the Salmon River and the community of Sayward.

The White River (WR) is underlain by massive and amygdaloidal basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation and fine-grained Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group sediments. The contact between the two units is a fault striking southwest under the White River. Some limestone is noted in the Karmutsen Formation basalts.

Pyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite are found in the basalts along fracture systems branching from the fault. A rock chip sample taken from trench 2 assayed 1.25 per cent copper with trace gold and silver (Assessment Report 2498). Shearing was evident in the trench.

In 1970, Newconex completed a program of trenching, geological mapping and rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the WR claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2498
EMPR GEM 1969-210, 1970-278
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC OF 480

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