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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Jun-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name MC, SECHELT Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G051
Status Showing NTS Map 092G12W
Latitude 049º 35' 42'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 53' 01'' Northing 5493977
Easting 436144
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The showing is situated on the Sechelt Peninsula, 1.9 kilometres north-northwest of the north end of Carlson Lake, 9.5 kilometres north-northeast of Halfmoon Bay.

The MC showing is hosted in a roof pendant of carbonates, amphibolite and related metavolcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation(?) (Vancouver Group), engulfed in diorite and quartz diorite of Upper Jurassic age, within the southwestern margin of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The roof pendant trends north-northwest along the east side of the Sechelt Peninsula for 12 kilometres.

The showing consists of a shear zone striking for 15 metres in limestone and varying up to 3 metres in width and is mineralized with chalcopyrite and minor pyrite and magnetite. A grab sample assayed 0.96 per cent copper, 24.0 grams per tonne silver and a trace of gold (Assessment Report 4803, page 2).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 4803
EMPR EXPL 1977-119; 1978-286
EMPR GEM 1973-240
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 550

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