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MINFILE No  092L 338
File Created: 03-May-1989 by Wim S. Vanderpoll (WV)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI 092L7 Cu5
Name HK 10, BON Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L036
Status Showing NTS Map 092L07W
Latitude 050º 23' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 49' 06'' Northing 5585350
Easting 655047
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The occurrence is underlain by Upper Triassic Vancouver Group Karmutsen Formation basalts and overlying limestones of the Quatsino Formation. The Vancouver Group rocks are intruded by granodiorite of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Unspecified copper mineralization occurs along the contact between the volcanics and the limestone.

Bibliography
EMR MP CORPFILE (*Ground Star Resources)
GSC BULL 47; 242
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC ANN RPT 1886
GSC SUM RPT 1929A; 1931A
GSC MEM 272
GSC P 38-2; 38-3; 71-36; 72-44; *74-8
GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A; 1029A; 1552A
CJES 18, p. 1; 20, p. 2, 1983
Sangster, D.F., (1964): The Contact Metasomatic Magnetite Deposits of Southwestern British Columbia, Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia
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