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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 092L12 Cu7
Name M, METEOR, ROY Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L062
Status Showing NTS Map 092L12E
Latitude 050º 41' 10'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 38' 42'' Northing 5615796
Easting 595718
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The M occurrence is located on the north side of Dick Booth Creek, approximately 2.2 kilometres southeast of the eastern end of Kains 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, pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization are present in tuffs of the Bonanza group and limestone of the Quatsino Formation along Bonanza andesite dike contacts and near diorite intrusives, possibly of Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The sediments dip 20 to 30 degrees to the south.

In 1990, samples of silicified limestone breccia, located approximately 1.1 kilometres to the east-southeast, yielded up to 0.07 per cent lead, 0.08 per cent zinc and 12.4 grams per tonne silver (32681; Assessment Report 20180).

In 1969, Meteor Minerals Inc. soil sampled the area as the M Group. In 1975, the area was prospected, mapped and sampled as the Sun and Moon claims. In 1982, BH Minerals Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the PH 1-2 claims. In 1990 and 1991, Hisway Resources Corp. completed programs of prospecting and geochemical (rock, soil and stream sediment) sampling on the area as the Roy claim.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1968-84
EMPR ASS RPT *2068, 5822, 10852, *20180, 21517
EMPR GEM 1969-203; 1970-254,264
GSC ANN RPT 1886
GSC BULL 242
GSC MAP *4-1974; 1552A
GSC OF 9; 170; 463; 722
GSC P 69-1A; 72-44; *74-8; 79-30
CJES 18, p. 1; 20, p. 1, Jan., 1983
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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