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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name MOUNTAIN, JUBILEE, GREEN MOUNTAIN, PITSON (L.80), PITTSON, GREEN IMPERIAL Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F009
Status Showing NTS Map 092F01W
Latitude 049º 01' 34'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 19' 45'' Northing 5431209
Easting 402833
Commodities Iron Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Green Mountain occurrence is located on the south western flank of Gamin Mountain, overlooking Bell Creek.

The area is underlain in part by a westward younging and perhaps westerly dipping succession which includes from east to west: basaltic and diabasic flows of the Pennsylvanian Sediment-Sill Unit of the Paleozoic Sicker Group; Pennsylvanian Buttle Lake Formation bedded chert, crinoidal marble, black meta-tuffaceous or argillaceous chert; and basaltic flows of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation. This succession is truncated to the west by a major body of Middle Jurassic Island Intrusions granodiorite.

Locally, massive and stringer magnetite, jasper, pyrite and marcasite occur in shears within volcanics, likely of the Devonian Nitinat Formation (Sicker Group). One tunnel has been driven on the zone for 150 metres and another, higher up the mountain, for 45 metres.

In 1982 through 1986, Imperial Metal Corp. completed programs of geochemical sampling, prospecting and a airborne geophysical survey on the Green Imperial property, immediately to the north. In 1986 and 1987, Roap Resources completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the Sicker claims.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1146; 1899-807-808; 1902-236; 1904-247; 1905-215; *1908-
149; 1930-302
EMPR ASS RPT 11079, 13573, 15452, 16592
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963
GSC OF 463; 1272
GSC P 68-50; 70-30
Sutherland Brown, A., (1988): Mineral Resources of the Alberni
Region, EMPR, British Columbia Geoscience Research Program
(RG87-26)
EMPR PFD 826207, 521848

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