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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  21-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name CORONATION MOUNTAIN, THRILLER Mining Division Nanaimo, Victoria
BCGS Map 092B091
Status Showing NTS Map 092B13W
Latitude 048º 58' 35'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 58' 03'' Northing 5425282
Easting 429202
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Coronation Mountain occurrence is located on the north eastern flank of Coronation Mountain, approximately 3 kilometres west- north west of Coronation Lake.

The area is underlain by granodioritic intrusive rocks of the early to middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Near the western boundary of the Ladysmith batholith of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite (formerly called the Island Intrusions), a large quartz vein occurs cutting the granodiorite. The vein strikes about 090 degrees and in places is 18 metres wide. The vein consists of coarse-grained quartz with pyrite, chalcopyrite ana little pyrrhotite and molybdenite.

In 1985, Canamin Resoures staked the Thriller claim after the discovery of a 91-metre adit that had been driven on the vein and a crosscut developed at the end. A program of geological mapping and prospecting was completed. The vein was not considered of sufficient grade to be of interest as an ore at the time.

A large mafic dyke carrying some chalcopyrite is reported to occur about 1.2 kilometres to the southeast of the adit, on the east side of a road.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14267
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91
EMPR OF 1988-8
EMPR PF (*Geochemical report with sketch by D.C. Douglas, Canadian
Pacific Oil and Gas, May 1969)
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM 13; 36; *96, p. 387
GSC OF 463
GSC P 1972-44; 1975-1A, p. 23; 1979-30
Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with
Emphasis on the Relationship of Plutonic Rocks and Mineral
Deposits, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University
EMPR PFD 5636, 5638

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