MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092L 140

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	03-Feb-1989	by	Nigel J. Hulme (NJH)

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		NMI	092L12 Cu3
Name	DEB	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092L063
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092L12E
Latitude	050º 41' 27''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	127º 31' 53''	Northing	5616474
		Easting	603733
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell


Capsule Geology	The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation andesites. Mineralization consists of chalco- pyrite and pyrite in quartz fracture fillings in epidotized vol- canics (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1968, page 92).

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1968-Fig.14,91

EMPR ASS RPT 1671, 2104

EMPR GEM 1969-203; 1970-254

GSC ANN RPT 1886

GSC BULL 242

GSC MAP *4-1974; 1552A

GSC OF 9; 170; 463; 722

GSC P 69-1A; 72-44; *74-8; 79-30

CJES 18, p. 1; 20, p. 1, Jan., 1983

Carson, D.J.T., (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with emphasis on the Relationship of Plutonic Rocks to Mineral Deposits, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa

EMPR PFD 673362, 673363