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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name TOWER Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092K022
Status Showing NTS Map 092K05W
Latitude 050º 15' 33'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 46' 29'' Northing 5571130
Easting 302229
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Tower claims are located approximately 15 kilometres south east of the community of Sayward, between Provincial Highway 19 and the headwaters of Big Tree Creek.

The area is underlain by massive and amygdaloidal upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation basalts with minor interbedded tuff which has been intruded by granodiorite and quartz diorite. The intrusive rocks are part of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex.

The volcanic rocks have been altered, fractured and locally mineralized by chalcopyrite and minor bornite within 900 metres of the intrusive contact.

The Tower claims were staked in 1972 and prospected the following year.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1972-286; *1973-253
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC OF 480
EMPR PFD 841040

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