MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092C 038

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	18-Jan-1991	by	Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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		NMI
Name	NITINAT, TANITIN	Mining Division	Victoria
		BCGS Map	092C088
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C15E
Latitude	048º 53' 56''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 34' 14''	Northing	5417405
		Easting	384895
Commodities	Copper, Iron, Magnetite	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell


Capsule Geology	The Tanitin showing is located near Parker Creek and Nitinat River, somewhere within a group of 96 claims. The area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Bonanza volcanics. Mineralization comprises chalcopyrite and magnetite in a possible skarn zone. Work done in 1956 includes a geophysical survey, diamond drilling on an anomaly, surface work and a 3.6 metre adit. No other information is available.

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1956-124

EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, p. 23; 1989, pp. 503-510

EMPR OF 1988-24; RGS 24

EMPR PF (In 092C General File - Aeromagnetic Contour Map, Nitinat Lake Area, Noranda Mines Ltd., date unknown)

GSC BULL 172

GSC EC GEOL No. 3 Vol. 1

GSC MAP 1386A

GSC MEM 13

GSC OF 463; 821; 1272

GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30

Carson, D.J.T. (1968) Metallogenic study of Vancouver Island with emphasis on the relationships of mineral deposits to plutonic rocks, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University

EMPR PFD 841061