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File Created: 27-Feb-1990 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  18-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name GREENSTONE CREEK Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092K003
Status Showing NTS Map 092K04E
Latitude 050º 00' 39'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 35' 40'' Northing 5543061
Easting 314117
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Greenstone Creek occurrence is described as being located on or near Greenstone Creek, approximately 2.1 kilometres below the Big Mike (MINFILE 092F 237) past producing mine.

The area is underlain by Karmutsen Formation volcanics overlain by Quatsino Formation limestone, both of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. These in turn are overlain by volcanic flows and breccias of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. Intruding the stratigraphy are plutonic rocks of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. These plutonic rocks on Vancouver Island vary in composition from gabbro to quartz monzonite but are mainly granodiorite and quartz diorite.

Locally, banded, silicified, and otherwise altered, crystalline limestone outcrops for 7.5 metres near the creek edge and strikes north 60 degrees east with a dip of 25 degrees south east. The limestone is largely replaced by quartz, wollastonite, diopside, garnet and sulphides. Sulphide mineralization consists of sphalerite, galena, pyrite, and chalcopyrite occurring over 0.3 metre widths.

In 1965, Gunnex Limited completed a program of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the M and Thelma claims. In 1969, Georgia Mines completed an airborne magnetic survey on the area.

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