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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name SOL B, HAVILAH Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F017
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 07' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 36' 20'' Northing 5442099
Easting 382851
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Sol B showing is located about 6 kilometres southeast of the Debbie deposit, near the Havilah mine workings (092F 437), 25 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.

The area is underlain by Devonian Sicker Group (Duck Lake Formation) volcanic rocks which are cut by diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and quartz-feldspar porphyry of the Tertiary Mount Washington Intrusive Suite (Personal Communication - N. Massey, May 1990). The volcanic rocks include massive andesite and purple fragmental volcanics. A northeast trending fracture system appears to have controlled intrusion of the quartz-feldspar porphyries and mineralized quartz veins and veinlets.

Three low-grade mineralized zones contain pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite and locally minor molybdenite, sphalerite and galena as disseminations and in quartz veins and fractures. The andesites and porphyry dykes are the common host for the mineralization. Sericite and kaolin alteration occur in the quartz-feldspar porphyry and epidote, garnet and chlorite occur in the andesite.

The middle zone contains a 38 centimetre wide vein assaying 2.4 grams per tonne gold, 85.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.24 per cent copper, 1.95 per cent lead and 1.1 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 5354). This vein is likely a northern extension of the same mineralized shear zone that the Gillespie vein (092F 082) occurs in.

A composite chip sample from the north zone, which lies 350 metres north of the middle zone, assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 3.1 grams per tonne silver, 0.1 per cent copper and 0.006 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 5354).

The south zone lies about 700 metres southeast of the middle zone.

From 1999 through 2002, Mandalay Resources completed programs of prospecting and rock and soil geochemical surveys on the King claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *5354, 6138, 6643, 7600, 9126, 10194, 12538, 12564
14880, 17222, 18400, 19695, 26086, 26392, 26721, 27089
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR EXPL 1975-95; 1976-111; 1977-110; 1981-230
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR GEM 1974-172-173
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
EMPR PF (DiSpirito, F. (1987): Report on the B&M 1-8, Rita 1-2,
MVM 1, Sol A & B Claims, Goldwest Resources Ltd.)
GSC MAP 17-1968; 17A; 49-1963
GSC OF 463; 1272
GSC P 68-50; 79-30
CIM BULL Vol. 83 No. 935, March 1990 pp. 125-135
GCNL #57, 1985
PERS COMM (N. Massey, May 1990)
EMPR PFD 7840, 827395

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