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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  18-May-2021 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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Name P.D., HILL, BOUNTIFUL Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F037
Status Prospect NTS Map 092F07E
Latitude 049º 22' 16'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 43' 01'' Northing 5470129
Easting 375357
Commodities Zinc, Silver, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The P.D. occurrence is located in the head waters of Hunts Creek, approximately 1.7 kilometres north of Horne Lake.

Locally, a zinc skarn or replacement deposit occurs in crystalline limestone of the Pennsylvanian to Permian Mount Mark Formation, Buttle Lake Group. The limestone is in contact with Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation volcanics to the north of the occurrence.

The deposit consists of lenses and pods of predominantly massive sulphides and disseminated sphalerite exposed over a length of 122 metres and a width of 24 metres. An early report describes the massive sulphides as arsenopyrite with some sphalerite (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927), however, a more recent report describes them as consisting of pyrite, marcasite and sphalerite (Assessment Report 14415). The individual zones of sulphide are reported to be up to 7.5 metres in width with a 025 degree strike and a 70 to 90 degree west dip.

A trench sample taken across 2.4 metres assayed 20 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927). Another zone was sampled across 0.5 metres and was found to contain 21.98 per cent zinc, 0.39 per cent copper and 43.89 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13105).

Three shafts were sunk on the deposit circa 1927, totalling about 72 metres in depth, and numerous trenches also exposed the showings. In 1964 Cominco was reported to have drilled 4 holes in the vicinity of the shafts. In 1984, Black Sheep Ventures completed a program of ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys. In 1986, a program of soil geochemical sampling, IP resistivity survey and diamond drilling. In 2007 and 2011, programs of remote sensing (spectral analysis) were completed by D. McLelland on the area as the Bountiful property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1927-351
EMPR ASS RPT *13105, *14415, 30044, 32894
EMPR EXPL 1984-164; 1986-C174
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1989-6
EMPR P 1989-3
EMPR PF (Preliminary map of the Horne Lake area, R.W. Yole, 1962; 092F General File - Report on the P.D. showing, H. Laanela, 1966, Gunnex Ltd., Occurrence #44)
GSC BULL 172
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P *68-50, p.38; 71-36; 72-44; 79-30
Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island With Emphasis on the Relationships of Mineral Deposits to Plutonic Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University

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