MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092L 086

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	03-Apr-2014	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI	092L5 Fe1
Name	BLUE BIRD - INGERSOL, DP, MAGGIE, ANNA, MYSTIC, STELLA, OLGA	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092L042
Status	Prospect	NTS Map	092L05E
Latitude	050º 28' 34''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	127º 39' 56''	Northing	5592420
		Easting	594686
Commodities	Iron, Gold, Magnetite, Copper	Deposit Types	K04 : Au skarn
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Blue Bird - Ingersol occurrences are located 400 metres east of Klootchlimmis Creek, approximately 1 kilometre south of the creek mouth.

The area is underlain by calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. To the south these have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Locally, on the Bluebird claim, a 12-metre wide limestone band, inter-bedded with Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanic rocks, is replaced by massive magnetite skarn carrying chalcopyrite, pyrite and values in gold. Similar mineralization occurs on the adjacent Ingersol claim.

A sample taken from an unspecified location on the adjoining Bluebird and Ingersol claims assayed 58.0 per cent iron and 13.7 grams per tonne gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1903, page 194).

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1903-194; 1906-199; 1968-97

EMPR PF (in 092L 230 - Les: Brinco Report on Exploration in

Mahatta River Area, 1974)

GSC ANN RPT 1886

GSC BULL 172; 242

GSC EC GEOL *Series 3, Vol. 1, p. 238

GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A; 1552A

GSC OF 9; 170; 463

GSC P 69-1A; 70-1A; 71-36; 72-44; 74-8

GSC SUM RPT 1918B; 1929A

Carson, D.J.T., (1968): Unpubl. Report, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton

University

Sangster, D.F., (1964): Unpubl. Report, Ph.D. Thesis, University

of British Columbia

EMPR PFD 521865