MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092L 156

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	15-Jun-2007	by	Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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		NMI	092L2 Cu6
Name	SCORPIO (L.1703)	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092L006
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092L02W
Latitude	050º 01' 57''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	126º 49' 10''	Northing	5544522
		Easting	656162
Commodities	Copper, Molybdenum	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Scorpio occurrence lies in a band of vertical, north striking calc-silicate altered feldspar and dacite tuffs of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group, on the northwest flank of the Eocene South Zeballos stock quartz diorite phase of the Catface Intrusions.

The occurrence consists of sulphide replacements with masses of pyrrhotite carrying a little chalcopyrite and molybdenite.

Felsic and mafic dykes occur in the vicinity and some minerali- zation is associated with these in several scattered showings. The largest occurrence measures 6 by 1.2 metres.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1967-74; 1964-154

EMPR BULL 20, Part V, p. *27

EMPR FIELDWORK 1982, p. 290; 1983, p. 219

EMPR PF (Fern Hill, 092L 155; Privateer, 092L 008)

GSC EC GEOL 1

GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A; 1028A; 1552A

GSC MEM 204; 272

GSC OF 9; 170; 463

GSC P 38-5; *40-12, p. 20; 69-1A; 70-1A; 72-44; 74-8; 79-30

GSC SUM RPT 1929, Part A; 1932, Part A II

CIM TRANS Vol. 42, 1939, pp. 225-237; 1948, pp. 78-85; 72,

pp. 116-125

N MINER Apr. 1938, pp. 39-45

Carson, D.J.T., (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with

emphasis on the Relationship of Plutonic Rocks to Mineral Deposits,

Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa

Stevenson, J.S. (1938): Lode Gold Deposits of the Zeballos Area