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MINFILE No 092L 298

File Created:	02-Feb-1989	by	Nigel J. Hulme (NJH)
Last Edit:	02-Feb-1989	by	Nigel J. Hulme (NJH)

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		NMI
Name	WOB 48	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092L062
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092L12E
Latitude	050º 41' 59''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	127º 38' 37''	Northing	5617311
		Easting	595789
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

In this area the geology from northeast to southwest, consists of northwest trending Karmutsen Formation andesites with minor limestone and Quatsino Formation limestone, both of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. The Vancouver Group rocks are overlain by Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group shales which are in fault contact with the Karmutsen Formation.

In the northeast block of the Karmutsen Formation, a quartz- chalcocite vein, 0.1 metres wide, is exposed in a roadcut in andesite (Assessment Report 1719).

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1968-84

EMPR ASS RPT *1719, 2208, 2787, 3086, 10852, 12405

EMPR EXPL 1982-231

EMPR GEM 1969-354; 1970-254,264; 1971-322

GSC ANN RPT 1886

GSC BULL 242

GSC MAP *4-74; 1552A

GSC OF 9; 170; 463; 722

GSCS P 67-1A; 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