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File Created: 24-Jun-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  07-Jul-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KIM WEST, KRINGLE, RED METAL RIDGE Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L040
Status Showing NTS Map 092L08E
Latitude 050º 19' 48'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 07' 36'' Northing 5579280
Easting 704494
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Kim West occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 510 metres on a north-northwest–trending ridge, west of Kim Creek and approximately 2.05 kilometres southwest of the creek’s mouth on the Adam River.

The area to the west of the Adam River is mainly underlain mainly by the upper part of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, comprising mainly thick massive flows with local intercalations of amygdaloidal basalt and pods of autoclastic breccias, pillowed and massive flows with thin intercalations of volcaniclastic and limy sandstones, all cut by thin dolerite/gabbro sills.

Locally, an altered intersertal basalt with microphenocrysts and 5 per cent amygdales hosts copper and gold values.

In 2013, a rock sample (1415719) assayed 0.494 per cent copper and 0.226 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 34183).

Work History

During 2006 through 2013, M. Schau completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Kringle 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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