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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  08-May-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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NMI
Name BDQ, PT Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F017
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 06' 35'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 42' 35'' Northing 5441061
Easting 375224
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The location of the BDQ showing is unknown, but it is inferred to occur near the junction of Franklin River and Museum Creek on the present day PT claims. Work done in 1940 reportedly produced 62 grams of gold, 156 grams of silver and 11 kilograms of copper (Annual Report 1940, page A27). The area is underlain by granodioritic, dioritic and granitic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group.

During the 1988 mapping program by the B.C. Geological Survey, a moss-matt sediment sample was taken near this location, the values for base and precious metals were low (Open File 1989-6). There is no other geological information available for this showing.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1940-A27
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR INDEX 3-188
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
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
EMPR PFD 600004, 600006, 672843

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