MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092F 238

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	15-Mar-1990	by	Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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		NMI
Name	THREE MUSKETEERS, BROWN	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092F073
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092F11W
Latitude	049º 42' 05''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 24' 02''	Northing	5508197
		Easting	326904
Commodities	Copper, Gold	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The area of the Three Musketeers showing is underlain by basalt and andesite of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. Stocks of quartz diorite related to the Tertiary Late Eocene to Early Oligocene Mount Washington Intrusive Suite (formerly Catface Intrusions) intrude the strata.

Little is known of these deposits except that they appear on Carson's map of mineral deposits of Vancouver Island (Carson, 1968). The Brown occurrence, located on Carson's map within a few kilometres to the northeast of the Gem Lake prospect (092F 239), is classified as a gold-quartz vein or fissure zone. The Three Musketeers showing, located within a few kilometres to the northeast of the Brown showing, is classified as a copper-shear zone type deposit.


Bibliography	GSC MAP 2-1965; 17-1968; 1386A GSC OF 463 GSC P 68-50, p.39; 72-44 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Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island With Emphasis on the Relationships of Mineral Deposits to Plutonic Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University EMPR PFD 7453, 7454, 7455, 7456, 7457, 7458, 7459, 7460, 7461, 7462, 7463