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MINFILE No  092K 079
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  25-May-1989 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name TIMOTHY Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092K015
Status Showing NTS Map 092K03E
Latitude 050º 10' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 06' 58'' Northing 5560201
Easting 348901
Commodities Mercury Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by Juro-Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex quartz diorite. The Timothy showing is documented as containing metacinnabarite which is synonymous with metacinnabar, a black isometric ore mineral of mercury.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS PRT 3488
EMPR PF (*Letter from G. Milbourne to P. Eastwood, 1971)
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 23, p. 146
GSC OF 480
EMPR PFD 11977, 11979
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