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MINFILE No 092F 376

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	09-May-1990	by	Larry Jones (LDJ)

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		NMI
Name	KARLSSON, AJ	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092F018
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092F01W
Latitude	049º 06' 19''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 27' 35''	Northing	5440185
		Easting	393459
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Karlsson showing is located approximately 2 kilometres south of Labour Day Lake. An inlier of volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) within feldspar porphyry of the Tertiary Mount Washington Intrusive Suite (Labour Day Lake pluton, Personal Communication - N. Massey, May 1990) contains minor chalcopyrite, pyrite, and bornite as fracture-fillings. The 055 degree trending, vertically dipping fracture is 1.2 metres long and 5 centimetres wide.

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT 7768, 8571, 10390, 10391, 12128

EMPR BULL 37

EMPR EXPL 1980-164; 1981-278

EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74

EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6

EMPR PF (Laanela, H. (1965): *Gunnex Limited)

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 #90, 1980; #111, #219, 1981

PERS COMM (N. Massey, May 1990)

EMPR PFD 650145, 650146, 650144, 7827, 826207