British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas and Responsible for Housing
News | The Premier Online | Ministries & Organizations | Job Opportunities | Main Index

MINFILE Home page  ARIS Home page  MINFILE Search page  Property File Search
Help Help
File Created: 28-Nov-1988 by Wim S. Vanderpoll (WV)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

Summary Help Help

NMI
Name WALDER, TIDEWATER, G Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L058
Status Showing NTS Map 092L10E
Latitude 050º 33' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 33' 45'' Northing 5602900
Easting 672668
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The occurrence is on Walder Island between Cracroft and Harble- down Islands, on the boundary between the Insular Belt and the Coast Crystalline Belt.

Walder Island and the adjacent islands are underlain by andesites and related rocks of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation. The andesites have undergone regional greenschist facies metamorphism.

The occurrence consists of disseminated chalcopyrite in altered andesite. Abundant carbonate veining is evident.

A single sample collected assayed 1.74 per cent copper and 13.72 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14230, Figure 2A).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14230
EMPR EXPL 1985-C233
GSC MAP 4-1974; 1552A
GSC P 74-8

COPYRIGHT | DISCLAIMER | PRIVACY | ACCESSIBILITY