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File Created: 16-Feb-2004 by Kirk Hancock (KDH)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name KIPPER, HELI CREEK, MT. SEATON Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092L013
Status Showing NTS Map 092L04E
Latitude 050º 09' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 31' 06'' Northing 5558182
Easting 605818
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Kipper showing was located on the east slopes of Mt. Seaton, just east of the Brooks Peninsula. Access is by helicopter or float plane to several beach locations. The mountainsides are thickly covered by coastal rain forest. The property was staked to investigate regional geochemical metals anomalies.

The region is underlain by a complex, fault-bounded package dominated by the Jurassic Vancouver Group and the Triassic Bonanza Group. These groups trend north westerly and are strongly deformed. Intruded into the package are stocks and plutons of the Island Intrusive Suite.

Locally, thin to medium bedded black shaly limestone of the Parsons Bay Formation and massive to thinly bedded dacite and rhyodacite of the Bonanza Group are present. The Bonanza volcanics are intruded by the Jurassic Mount Seaton pluton and associated quartz-feldspar porphyry dikes. The dikes appear spatially related to several quartz veins. Both trend northerly and mineralization in the veins comprises pyrite, chalcopyrite and malachite. Analyses of the veins yielded a best value of 725 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 20253).

In 1990, Teck Explorations completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *20253
EMPR PF Property Sketch Map
GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 69-1A; 70-1A; 72-44; 74-8
EMPR PFD 13028

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