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File Created: 03-Jun-1986 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  19-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name UPPER JACKIE, JACKIE, JACKIE 2, BONBONAZ Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L010
Status Showing NTS Map 092E16E, 092L01E
Latitude 050º 00' 26'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 10' 02'' Northing 5543279
Easting 702972
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper, Cadmium, Molybdenum, Garnet Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Upper Jackie occurrence is located on an east facing ridge, approximately 1.8 kilometres north west of the northern end of Twaddle Lake at an elevation of 840 metres.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen volcanics comprised mainly of pillowed basalts, tuffs and breccia. The Karmutsen rocks are intruded by Jurassic granodiorite of the Island Plutonic Suite.

The property is underlain by a sediment-sill unit, in fault contact with Karmutsen mafic flows. The former consists of thin- bedded argillites and siltstones interbedded with cherts, cherty and mafic tuffs, minor calcareous sediments, chloritic schist and graphitic lenses and zones. Interbedded sills are of andesitic and basaltic to gabbroic compositions. Diorite intrudes the sediment-sill unit in the eastern part of the claim group along a northwest trending contact.

Locally, a sediment-sill sequence, near its contact with quartz diorite and coarse-grained diorite hosts galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization as banded and disseminated lenses with quartz veins and veinlets. The mineralization is exposed over an area of 3.0 metres wide within argillite inter- bedded with chert, with local chloritic schist, and epidote and sericite alteration. The mineralization appears to be associated with a major west trending fault.

In 1985, a high grade specimen assayed a combined 42 per cent lead and zinc with 1.58 per cent copper, 0.0125 per cent cadmium, 343.0 grams per tonne silver and trace gold (Assessment Report 14319).

In 1987, assays from a chip sample over 1.6 metres of sulphide-rich chloritic schist near a mafic volcanic contact assayed 5.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.08 per cent copper, 0.54 per cent lead, 0.66 per cent zinc and 0.03 grams per tonne gold. A 1.0 metre chip sample of argillite with interbedded chert with massive sulphide lenses assayed 23.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.48 per cent copper, 8.20 per cent lead, 4.80 per cent zinc and 0.03 grams per tonne gold. In addition ICP (induced coupled plasma) geochemical values of 874 parts per million cadmium and 19 parts per million molybdenum were reported (Assessment Report 16557, page 26).

Other limonitic zones and minor sulphides are reported on Jackie 2 and Bonbonaz 4 claims. Minute gem quality garnets, light orange-red in color, are reported from Jackie 2 claim.

During 1984 through 1987, Canamin Resources completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, trenching and rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the Jackie and Bonbonaz claims. In 1989, Doramin Resources completed a program of sampling and a lone diamond drill hole, totalling 102.6 metres, on the Lower Jackie occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14319, 15223, *16557, 19084
EMPR EXPL 1985-C229; 1986-C153; 1987-C130
EMPR PF (Geological and Geochemical Report on Jackie Group;
B.Y. Thomae and T.G. Hawkins, 1987; Specogna, E. (1984):
Preliminary Report on the Jackie Polymetallic Property for
Canamin Resources Ltd.)
GSC MAP 4-1974; 1537A
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 69-1A; 70-1A; 72-44; 74-8; 79-30; 80-16
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
EMPR PFD 12820

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