MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092K 116

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	12-May-1989	by	Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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		NMI	092K3 Cu1
Name	AJAX, WHYO, WANDERER	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092K014
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	092K03W
Latitude	050º 11' 19''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 18' 31''	Northing	5562153
		Easting	335205
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation volcanic rocks of the Vancouver Group. To the east these are interbedded with, and overlain by a northwest trending belt of Quatsino Formation limestone (Vancouver Group) known historically as the "lime-belt". The Vancouver Group rocks are in fault and/or intrusive contact to the northeast with intrusive rocks of the Juro- Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex.

A shear zone up to 60 metres in width strikes 135 degrees into a hill slope consisting of amygdaloidal basalts (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927). Other reports indicate a strike of about 080 degrees (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 23).

Lenses and small veins of calcite hosting chalcocite and bornite occur within the shear. About 30 tonnes of ore were taken out prior to 1902, assaying over 25 per cent copper. Values of gold and silver are reported to be low.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1899-807; 1902-236; 1907-160; 1920-216; 1921-224; 1922-240; 1926-314; 1927-352; 1928-382; 1930-306 EMPR BULL 23; 40 GSC MAP 120A; 1386A GSC MEM *23, p. 128 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 895258