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File Created: 17-Jan-1989 by Wim S. Vanderpoll (WV)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name SIN 4,6 Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092L014
Status Showing NTS Map 092L03W
Latitude 050º 08' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 22' 18'' Northing 5555929
Easting 616346
Commodities Pyrophyllite, Talc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Sin 4,6 occurrence is located in the western head waters of Kayouk Creek, approximately 4.7 kilometres west of the mouth of Easy Inlet.

The region is underlain by Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group intermediate to felsic flows and pyroclastics. Minor calcareous sediments of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Parson Bay Formation are in fault contact with the volcanic rocks. A diorite stock of the Jurassic Island Intrusions occurs at the head of Kashutl Inlet, 7 kilometres northeast.

Locally, occurrences of talc and pyrophyllite are indicated on Figure 5 of Assessment Report 11664. The showings lie in Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group andesitic tuffs and flows. The pyrophyllite is indicated as occurring along two north and northeast trending faults.

A talc occurrence, hosted by similar Bonanza Group rocks, is located at an elevation of 365 metres, about 1.0 kilometre north of the pyrophyllite. No further information is available.

In 1982, BP Minerals completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the area. During 1986 through 1989, Taywin Resources completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the area as the Sin 1-7 claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *11664, 15521, 19462
GSC ANN RPT 1886
GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 69-1A; 70-1A; 72-44; 74-8
GSC SUM RPT 1913; 1920A; 1929A
EMPR PFD 650208, 650209

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