MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092F 377

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	29-May-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	LITTLE QUALICUM FALLS, QUALICUM	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092F038
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092F07E
Latitude	049º 18' 19''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 35' 05''	Northing	5462601
		Easting	384802
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Little Qualicum Falls occurrence is located in the head waters of Kinkade Creek, approximately 1.5 kilometres north of the eastern end of Cameron Lake.

The area is underlain by fine-grained granite and granodiorite of the Lower Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite intrude basalts and related diabase dykes of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group.

Locally, a 3 by 23 metre altered, sheared and brecciated zone occurs in the volcanics, in contact with diabase (diorite). Mineralization in the altered zone consists of disseminated chalcocite, malachite and azurite.

In the mid 1960’s, Gunnex completed regional a program of prospecting and geochemical sampling in the area. A sample assayed 0.93 per cent copper and 3.4 grams per tonne silver (Laanela, 1965).

A few other small copper occurrences are reported in the area.

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT *16559

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74

EMPR OF 1989-6

EMPR PF (*Laanela, H. (1965): Little Qualicum Falls Chalcopyrite

Showing, Mineral Occurrence #29, Gunnex Ltd.)

GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963; 1386A

GSC OF 463; 1272

GSC P 68-50, p. 38; 72-44; 79-30

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Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University

Sutherland Brown, A. (1988): Mineral Resources of the Alberni

Region, EMPR, British Columbia Geoscience Research Program

(RG87-26)

EMPR PFD 826207