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File Created: 18-May-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name KVD Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092K076
Status Showing NTS Map 092K10W, 092K15W
Latitude 050º 45' 03'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 57' 15'' Northing 5623938
Easting 362149
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite were observed within a kilometre of the western shore of Bute Inlet (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 480). The area is underlain by diorite of the Late Jurassic to Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex.

A northwest trending belt of Paleozoic and/or Triassic meta- morphic rocks occurs to the immediate north. These consist primarily of amphibolite, schist and quartzite.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 23, p. 146
GSC OF 463; *480
GSC P 70-1A, pp. 44-49; 71-1A, pp. 31-33; 72-1A, pp. 21-23; 73-1A, pp. 42,43

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