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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Feb-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 102I8 Cu1
Name KAINS Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 102I050
Status Showing NTS Map 102I08E
Latitude 050º 27' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 02' 36'' Northing 5590308
Easting 567903
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Kains occurrence is located near the southern end of Kains Peninsula, approximately 6.5 kilometres south of Winter Harbour.

The area is underlain by sediments and volcanics of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group.

The showing consists of disseminated pyrite and small lenses of chalcopyrite associated with a shear zone within Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group andesites. Mineralization has been traced over 60 metres. The andesites are strongly chloritized and are cut by a quartz-diorite dike, 1.5 to 2.0 metres in width, which strikes northeast, parallel to the mineralized shear zone.

In 1969, Utah Construction and Mining Co. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the Kains claims.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1969-206
EMPR ASS RPT *1957
EMPR GEM 1970-254
GSC BULL 242
GSC MAP 4-1974
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 67-1A; 69-1A; 70-1A; 72-44; 74-8; 79-30
EMPR PFD 826849

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