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File Created: 09-Jun-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name GT-4, BONANZA Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L037
Status Showing NTS Map 092L07E
Latitude 050º 18' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 43' 26'' Northing 5575359
Easting 662065
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The GT-4 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 425 metres on a generally east-facing slope, south-southeast of Bonanza Lake and approximately 1.8 kilometres northeast of White Fang Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group), which have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite to the southwest and northwest.

Locally, weakly epidote-altered volcanics host minor fine-grained to blebby pyrite and chalcopyrite associated with a 5.0-metre-wide intensely sericite-epidote-clay–altered shear zone.

In 2013, a chip sample (GT-4) yielded 0.215 per cent copper over 4.0 metres, whereas a previous sample (0907) is reported to have assayed 0.767 per cent copper over an unknown length (Assessment Report 34322).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Bonanza Pit (MINFILE 092L 164) occurrence and a complete regional exploration history can be found there.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1970-274; 1972-290; 1973-258; *1976-E128; 1977-E173
GSC BULL 47; 172; 242
GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A; 1029A; 1552A
GSC MEM 272
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 38-2; 38-3; 72-44; *74-8
GSC SUM RPT 1929A; 1931A
CJES 18, p. 1; 20, p. 2, 1983

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