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File Created: 20-Feb-1986 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  28-Jan-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name ENGL, NIMPKISH, RAVENHILL Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L026
Status Showing NTS Map 092L07W
Latitude 050º 17' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 49' 41'' Northing 5573595
Easting 654698
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Silver, Mercury Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The ENGL occurrence is located on the southern end of the Hankin Range, on steep south-southwest facing slopes overlooking Woodengl Creek.

The area is underlain by carbonates and calcareous sediments of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group). The Quatsino sediments are in fault contact with the overlying Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics. Strong, regional north to northwest trending faults traverse the area. Granodiorite of the Nimpkish Batholith, which is part of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite, intrudes the older rocks. The contact is located 1.0 kilometre north of the occurrence.

Locally, mineralization consists of sphalerite with local pods of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite associated with a 1.0 metre wide fault zone. The fault occurs in Bonanza Group pyroclastic rocks which overlie calcareous sediments of the Quatsino Formation. Felsic dikes and sills are common. Sericite, silica and chlorite are present. A silicified quartz vein stockwork, 3 to 5 metres wide, occurs in the hangingwall of the fault and contains sphalerite mineralization.

In 1985, rock sampling yielded values up to 6 grams per tonne silver, 0.466 per cent copper, 4.754 per cent zinc and 0.14 per cent mercury (Assessment Report 13738)

In 1985, Homestake Canada Inc. completed a program of rock and soil sampling on the area as the ENGL claim. In 2005, the area was prospected as the Ravenhill property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *13738, 27846
EMPR EXPL 1985-232
GSC ANN RPT 1886
GSC BULL 242
GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A; 1029A; 1552A
GSC MEM 272
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 38-2; 38-3; 69-1A; 72-44; *74-8
GSC SUM RPT 1929A; 1931A, p. 33
CJES 18, p. 1; 20, p. 1, 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
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