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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  26-Sep-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name WWW (L.37,38,39,53), 3W'S, CORRIGAN CREEK Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F007
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 01' 44'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 41' 05'' Northing 5432034
Easting 376849
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The WWW veins are located on the south side of Corrigan Creek, about 23 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.

Three northeast trending quartz veins mineralized with pyrite, sphalerite and galena occur over a 300 metre length in granodiorite and diorite (Corrigan Creek Pluton) of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The pluton intrudes volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation.

The No. 1 vein is 90 metres long, 10 to 25 centimetres wide and dips 45 degrees southeast. It is exposed in one adit and 4 open cuts. In 1935, a 10 centimetre sample taken across the vein assayed 205.7 grams per tonne gold and 137 grams per tonne silver (Annual Report 1935). A 20 centimetre sample taken in 1970 assayed 7.3 grams per tonne gold and 57 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 2771).

The No. 2 vein, exposed by an adit, is 50 metres long, 0.20 metre wide and also dips 45 degrees southeast. A 0.10 metre sample assayed 58.6 grams per tonne gold and 84 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 2771).

The No. 3 vein dips about 25 degrees north, and measures 94 metres by 5 to 35 centimetres. A grab sample assayed 35.3 grams per tonne gold, 136.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.3 per cent copper, 0.13 per cent lead and 1.2 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 2771).

The WWW claims were first staked in 1898. Underground development was initiated in 1899 and continued intermittently until 1935. During this time a reported 114.2 tonnes of ore averaging 136.8 grams per tonne gold, 147.1 grams per tonne silver, 0.23 per cent copper and 1.1 per cent lead (Assessment Report 2771). In 2007 through 2009, Auracle Geospatial Science Inc. completed a program of spectral analysis and sample collect for further chemical analysis to be used in comparative spectral analysis.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1132; 1899-607; 1906-198; *1921-206-208; 1922-228; 1926-295; 1927-341; 1930-291; 1932-203; 1933-250; 1935-A28,*F49-52; 1940-27; 1941-27
EMPR ASS RPT *2771, 6865, 28875, 31357, 31821
EMPR BULL 1, (1932), p. 132; 37
EMPR GEM 1970-289; 1974-172
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
EMPR PF (092F General File - Laanela, H., (1966): Report, Gunnex Limited, Occurrence #17; Carter, N.C., (1974): Memo; District Geologist assays, 2001-2)
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963
GSC OF 463; 1272
GSC P 68-50; 79-30
CIM BULL Vol. 83 No. 935, March 1990 pp. 125-135
GCNL #199,#200, 1982
The Miner *Oct., 1935
EMPR PFD 7342, 7343, 7344, 826327

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