MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092C 151

File Created:	18-Dec-1998	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	17-May-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	MONTECARLO, MONTE CARLO	Mining Division	Victoria
		BCGS Map	092C098
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C16W
Latitude	048º 57' 33''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 29' 50''	Northing	5423997
		Easting	390402
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage, Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Montecarlo showing is located on a ridge separating Redbed and Heather creeks, approximately 1.7 kilometres south west of Heather Lake.

The area is underlain by basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) and sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous Nanaimo Group which have been intruded by diorite of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Locally, a 20 to 25 centimetre wide quartz vein containing significant quantities of chalcopyrite was traced in a steep road cut for about 10 metres. The vein disappeared beneath overburden. A chip sample of mineralized vein material yielded values of 3,758 parts per million copper and 1.3 parts per million silver (Assessment Report 21494).

In 1991 by Wellington-Young Resources Inc. completed a program soil, rock and silt sampling and geological mapping.

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT 21492, *21494

EMPR BULL 37

EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, p. 23; 1986, pp. 223-229; 1987, pp. 81-91; 1989,

pp. 503-510

EMPR MP MAP 1992-2

EMPR OF 1987-2; RGS 24, 1990

EMPR PF (In General File: B.C. Forest Products Road Map, Cowichan

Lake Area, 1963)

GSC MAP 1386A

GSC MEM 13

GSC OF 463; 821; 1272

GSC P 69-25; 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30

CJES Vol. 15 No. 3 1978, pp. 405-423

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

McGugan, A. (1962): Upper Cretaceous Foraminiferal zones, Vancouver

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