MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092L 413

File Created:	09-Jan-2014	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:	15-Jan-2014	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	WOSS, WOSS A, B, C	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092L007
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092L02E
Latitude	050º 01' 44''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	126º 38' 13''	Northing	5544518
		Easting	669243
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	I : VEIN, BRECCIA AND STOCKWORK
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Woss occurrence is located on an unnamed creek flowing north into Woss Lake, north of the divide with the Tahsis River.

The area is underlain by basic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). A north trending regional fault extends from the Tahsis River valley north through Woss Lake.

Locally, small (3 centimetre wide) quartz veins and stringers host pyrite, chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. Two samples of quartz stringers yielded 7.62 and 9.84 grams per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 19782).

In 1989, Teck Corporation completed a program prospecting and soil sampling on the area as the Woss A, B and C claims.


Bibliography	EMPR ASS RPT *19782 EMPR EXPL 1981-324 GSC MAP 1027A; 1537A GSC MEM 272, p. 56 GSC OF 463 GSC P 72-44; 80-16 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