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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 092L5 Cu14
Name PABLO 24-2 Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L022
Status Showing NTS Map 092L05E
Latitude 050º 15' 36'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 44' 26'' Northing 5568298
Easting 589772
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Pablo 24-2 occurrence is located on a ridge, west of Klaskish Basin.

The area is underlain by andesite and basalt of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation. The volcanics have been intruded by a granodiorite to diorite stock related to the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The volcanics are epidote altered and host disseminated pyrite and pyritic fracture fillings.

Locally, chalcopyrite and pyrite are disseminated throughout a silicified breccia at the volcanic-intrusive contact. A sample (30504) over 5.0 metres assayed 0.42 per cent copper and 5.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 4598).

Similar mineralization occurs on the Pablo 24-3 claim located about 300 metres to the southwest. Minor disseminated chalcopyrite and bornite are hosted within a breccia zone along the intrusive contact.

In 1973, Pechiney Development and Dowa Mining completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, trenching and a ground magnetometer survey on the area as the Pablo claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 4598
EMPR GEM 1973-257
GSC MAP 4-1974
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 69-1A; 70-1A; 72-44; *74-8; 79-30
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 673365, 673370, 673371

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