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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  08-Jun-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name RED JACKET, BLUE JACKET Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G071
Status Prospect NTS Map 092G13W
Latitude 049º 46' 40'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 52' 08'' Northing 5514286
Easting 437443
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A gossanous zone of copper-molybdenum mineralization is exposed in the headwaters of an unnamed creek, 2.5 kilometres southwest of the peak of Mount Louie, 3.8 kilometres east-southeast of Killam Bay. The Red Jacket showing is hosted in a roof pendant of metavolca- nics and metasediments of the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group engulfed in diorite of Cretaceous age, within the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex A steeply dipping shear zone strikes northeast for 350 metres and varies up to 180 metres in width. The zone is mineralized with chalcopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite with minor molybdenite occurring as disseminations and as fracture-fillings paralleling the foliation of the host rock. A chip sample across 1.8 metres assayed trace of gold, 21 grams per tonne silver and 0.5 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1917, p. 284).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1917-283,297; 1818-309
EMPR ASS RPT 12450
EMPR BULL 39
GSC MAP 42-1963; 1069A; 1386A
GSC OF 611
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 95-101
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 860773, 862228

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