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File Created: 03-May-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  07-Jul-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KRINGLE Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L040
Status Showing NTS Map 092L08E
Latitude 050º 20' 35'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 06' 40'' Northing 5580765
Easting 705545
Commodities Copper, Silver, Molybdenum, Iron, Vanadium Deposit Types K : SKARN
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Kringle showing is located on the east side of the Adam River, approximately 11 kilometres east-southeast of the community of Sayward.

The area is underlain by the volcanic rocks of the Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) and limestones of the Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group). These are near the contact with the Jurassic Adam River batholith to the east. Early altered dikes are near, and fresh porphyry dikes cut, the altered contact.

Locally, sulphides occur as veins cutting, garnet skarns, granodiorite, and feldspar porphyries, and as replacement masses at contacts between rock types, especially marble and garnetite. Sulphide mineralization consists of bornite along with, and among, magnetite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite (?), and pyrite. Local masses of wollastonite are also reported.

In 2002, a sample (E187880) of malachite-stained, argillically altered felsite(?) returned 7.05 per cent copper, 67.2 grams per tonne silver. Another sample (E187881) returned 0.112 per cent molybdenum with 0.203 per cent copper. Samples of massive magnetite yielded up to 36.7 per cent iron (Assessment Report 26930).

In 2006, a sample (A8-79) assayed 0.018 per cent molybdenum and 0.218 per cent vanadium, whereas a sample (L505.50) of granite with pyrite and chalcopyrite assayed 1.14 per cent copper (Assessment Report 31039).

Work History

During 2002 through 2013, M. Schau completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Kringle 1-4 claims. In 2018, Crest Resources Inc. completed a program of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, trenching and a 24.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Red Metal Ridge property.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1969-209; 1972-292
GSC MAP 4-1974
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 69-1A; 72-44; *74-8; 79-30
Sangster, D.F., (1964): The Contact Metasomatic Magnetite Deposits of Southwestern British Columbia, Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia
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
MacIntyre, D. (2018-07-18): Technical Report - Red Metal Ridge Mineral Property
MacIntyre, D. (2018-08-21): Technical Report - Red Metal Ridge Mineral Property

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