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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Apr-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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Name PORT, LIGHTSTAR, STARLIGHT, MARY, FITZWATER Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F007
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 02' 54'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 39' 50'' Northing 5434162
Easting 378419
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Port showing is located 1.6 kilometres southwest of Mt. Spencer, 22 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni. The Cup (Mary or Balls vein) (092F 207) showing is located at the northeast corner of the Port claim.

Pyrite and minor chalcopyrite in quartz stringers occur along a fault contact between hornblende diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanic rocks. The 30 centimetre fault strikes 130 degrees and dips 85 degrees northeast. A 1.5 metre chip sample of the footwall in diorite assayed 2.9 grams per tonne gold and 1.714 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14470).

An old adit occurs in the area and an 1895 report documented free gold with galena in altered diabase. Alteration minerals are quartz, pyrite and calcite.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1895-653
EMPR ASS RPT *8722, 13672, *14470, 15694, 16731
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR EXPL 1985-139; 1986-165
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp.61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2, 1988-24, *1989-6
EMPR P 1988-4
EMPR PF (Sketch Map of China Creek Mining Camp, 1895, in 092F 082, Gillespie)
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 #245, 1988

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