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File Created: 29-Oct-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  07-Nov-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name H1510, HUSHAMU EAST, EXPO Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L061
Status Showing NTS Map 092L12W
Latitude 050º 40' 10'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 48' 50'' Northing 5613738
Easting 583818
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types I : VEIN, BRECCIA AND STOCKWORK
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The H1510 occurrence is located in the northeastern headwaters of Hushamu Creek, approximately 2.3 kilometres east of the eastern end of Hushamu lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by northwest-trending belts of basaltic volcanics and carbonate sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen and Quatsino formations (Vancouver Group) and mafic volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group (Holberg volcanic unit, Nahwitti River wacke and Parson Bay Formation). These volcanic and sedimentary rocks have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Locally, a road (H1510) cut exposes a clay-altered quartz-feldspar porphyry hosting veins, up to 0.2 metres wide, of pyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite. The veins strike 070 degrees and dip moderately to the southeast.

In 2005, a grab sample (379379) assayed 0.11 gram per tonne gold, 18 grams per tonne silver and 2.58 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28375).

The area has been explored since the 1960s in conjunction with the nearby Hushamu (MINFILE 092L 240) occurrence. In 2005, Luminar Resources Corp. completed a program of rock, silt and soil sampling, geological mapping and a 2687.0 line-kilometre airborne electromagnetic survey on the area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *28375
EMPR GEM 1974-217,218 Fig.29
EMPR OF 1988-19
GSC BULL 242
GSC MAP 4-1974
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 69-1A; 72-44; 74-8; 79-30
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

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