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File Created: 11-May-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)
Last Edit:  24-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name MUSEUM, BEAR CREEK Mining Division Alberni, Victoria
BCGS Map 092F017
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 06' 35'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 40' 48'' Northing 5441012
Easting 377393
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Museum showing is located on Bear Creek, 20 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.

The area is underlain by pillowed and massive basaltic flows and breccias of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group.

A rock sampling program was undertaken along Bear Creek in 1988 in an effort to test the southern strike projection of the Williams Creek/Mineral Creek fault. The Mineral Creek fault hosts the Mineral Creek deposit (092F 079) on the Debbie property 5 kilometres to the north. The samples contained disseminated pyrite, minor pyrrhotite and trace chalcopyrite. In this area, mineralization is associated with pyrite in fracture controlled zones of strong epidote-carbonate- chlorite-quartz alteration within basaltic to diabasic flows (Panther showings 092F 439-442).

A 1.5 metre channel sample of the ankeritized shear zone, striking 175 degrees and dipping 63 degrees east, assayed 0.0157 per cent copper, 0.0109 per cent zinc, and 0.013 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18689). In 2006, L. Stephenson prospected the showing as apart of the HV 1-10 claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *18689, 28428
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
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 7842, 826207

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