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File Created: 19-Feb-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  30-Nov-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name GC, BOX CANYON Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F034
Status Showing NTS Map 092F06E
Latitude 049º 19' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 13' 27'' Northing 5466428
Easting 338400
Commodities Copper, Gold, Lead Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The GC occurrence is located on the northern slopes of Mount Porter, approximately 4 kilometres north east of Doran Lake.

The area is primarily underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) massive basalt, pillow basalt, pillow basalt breccia, lapilli tuff, a volcanic sediment unit and an occasional feldspar porphyry dike.

Mineralization consists of disseminated and locally massive pyrite and chalcopyrite and trace galena in a quartz-carbonate stockwork within a highly fractured and altered basalt. Quartz-carbonate stockworks are also evident in basalt breccia and are mineralized with pyrite and trace chalcopyrite. A rock sample from rubble at the base of a cliff (Box Canyon showing) assayed 0.32 per cent copper and 18.2 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 15354).

In 1986, the area was prospected by R.J. Bilquist as the GC 1-2 claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *15354, 15498
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50
EMPR PFD 671480, 671481

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