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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  03-May-1989 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 092K3 Cu3
Name BUTTE, CLIFF 2 Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092K014
Status Developed Prospect NTS Map 092K03W
Latitude 050º 06' 11'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 16' 08'' Northing 5552554
Easting 337751
Commodities Copper Deposit Types D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The western half of Quadra Island is underlain primarily by andesitic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation which are overlain and bounded on the east by a northwest trending belt of Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation limestone, both of the Vancouver Group.

The area is underlain by highly fractured and sheared Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation amygdaloidal andesitic flow rocks interlayered with dense, fine to medium grained andesitic units and minor thin beds of sedimentary and tuffaceous material. The flow rocks dip gently south and southeast and range in thickness from 0.3 to 3.6 metres and more. Many of the flows are highly amygdaloidal with the amygdules filled with calcite, quartz, chlorite, actinolite or prehnite. The rocks are chloritized and cut by numerous stringers and veinlets of quartz, calcite and epidote.

Chalcocite is the most abundant mineral with native copper and chalcopyrite in lesser amounts. Bornite and pyrite are rare. Malachite, azurite and cuprite are confined to oxidized and weathered surfaces. The distribution of the mineralization is erratic. It is found along fracture plane surfaces and within irregular quartz- calcite veinlets, less commonly it occurs within amygdules or is otherwise locally disseminated. The mineralization tends to be more concentrated where fracture density is high.

The Butte is comprised of disseminated chalcocite mineralization within fractured, chloritic amydgaloidal andesite flows.

Trenching has resulted in inferred reserves of 36,284 tonnes grading 1.4 per cent copper (see Pomeroy 3,4 (092K 071), Report by Sheppard, 1973).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1914-K381-K385; *1916-K346; *1918-K270-K274; 1919-N217,N218; 1920-N216; 1922-N240; 1925-A282; 1929-C391; 1930-A306; *1953-A163- A165; 1964-152; 1968-A53,100,101
EMPR ASS RPT 852, *5076, 22264
EMPR EXPL 1975-E111,E112; 1976-E125; 1978-E180; 1979-187,188
EMPR GEM 1969-212; 1970-280; *1974-207,208
EMPR PF (*092K071-Sheppard, E.P. (1973): Geological Report on the Pomeroy Group and Contact Group; McLeod, G.H. (1969): Report of Examination and Estimates of Production on the Quadra Mining Company Limited Property; Bacon, W.R. (1953): Preliminary Report for Department of Mines' Information; 092K012; 092K101-Sheppard, E.P. (1972): Geological Report on the Contact Claims; 092K General)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Dodge Copper Mines Ltd., Prince Stewart Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 23, pp. 125-127
GSC OF 463; 480
Hudson, R. (1997): A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia, Vol. 1: Vancouver Island, p. 168
EMPR PFD 673027

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