MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092K 099

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	01-May-1989	by	Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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		NMI
Name	CONDOR	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092K014
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092K03E, 092K03W
Latitude	050º 11' 14''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 15' 19''	Northing	5561882
		Easting	339007
Commodities	Copper, Gold, Silver	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group consisting of Karmutsen Formation volcanics rocks which are overlain on the northeast by a northwest trending belt of Quatsino Formation limestone. The latter is known historically as the "lime-belt". These are in fault and/or intrusive contact to the northeast with intrusive rocks of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex.

A body of pyrrhotite with quartz about 1 metre wide has been exposed at the mouth of a tunnel that has been driven 33 metres south- west in limestone. The Condor occurrence is situated to the north- west of the Anaconda (092K 111), which exhibits similar geology. The latter occurs at the contact of andesitic rock and limestone. The intrusive contact occurs within a few hundred metres to the northeast.

A sample of pyrrhotite and quartz assayed 0.69 grams per tonne gold, 6.86 grams per tonne silver and 0.9 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1913, page 285).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1911-194; 1913-285,286 EMPR ASS RPT 16142, 16143 EMPR BULL 23; 40 GSC MAP 120A; 1386A GSC MEM 23, 146 pp. GSC OF 463; 480 GSC P 70-1A, pp. 44-49; 71-1A, pp. 31-33; 72-1A, pp. 21-23; 73-1A, pp. 42,43 GSC SUM RPT 1913, pp. 53-75 EMPR PFD 820754, 820755, 820756, 820762