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File Created: 22-Jan-1991 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)
Last Edit:  20-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name SILVER KING, COPPER QUEEN, LIQUID SUNSHINE, NAHMINT Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092C096
Status Showing NTS Map 092C15W
Latitude 048º 59' 13'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 58' 23'' Northing 5427880
Easting 355652
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Silver King and Copper Queen showings are located on Limestone Bay, on the west side of Alberni Inlet, 45 kilometres southwest of Port Alberni. The Happy John (092C 008) showings and the Monitor mine (092C 007) occur respectively to the east.

The area is underlain by rocks of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, comprising Karmutsen Formation volcanics and Quatsino Formation sediments, and Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics. These consist of sheared and fractured limestone, argillite, dacite and andesite.

There are several mineral occurrences in the area; these occur in skarns, in areas of shearing and in areas of silicification. The geology and mineralization is very similar to that of the Monitor mine and may actually be the extension of the Monitor zones.

The Silver King occurrence consists of a skarn body, striking 040 degrees and dipping 50 degrees. Mineralization consists of magnetite, chalcopyrite, pryite, bornite and sphalerite.

The Copper Queen occurrence, located approximately 300 metres to the east- south east, consists of a 0.25 metre thick skarn zone, striking 170 degrees and dipping vertically. The zone is hosted by a altered limestone containing calcite stringers and mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and magnetite.

In 1986 through 1989, Chelan Resources completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Liquid Sunshine project. From six samples of the showing on the Silver King claim, the highest assay was 6.856 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 15199). A sample from a siliceous zone on the Copper Queen claim, 150 metres east of the Silver King, assayed 12.34 grams per tonne gold and 20.9 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 15199).

In 2007 through 2013, Nahminto Resources completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling, a ground magnetometer survey and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the TJM claims, apart of the Nahmint property. In 2010, two select outcrop grab samples, 8890 and 8891, from the former Silver King crown grant assayed 3.8 and 2.0 per cent zinc, 1.7 and 0.38 per cent copper with 23.8 grams per tonne and trace silver (Assessment Report 31708). A select grab sample (8885) from the former Copper Queen crown grant assayed 0.97 per cent zinc, 0.24 per cent copper (Assessment Report 31708).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 503-510
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EMPR PF (In 092C General File - Aeromagnetic Contour Map, Nitinat
Lake Area, Noranda Mines Ltd., date unknown)
GSC BULL 172
GSC EC GEOL No. 3, Vol. 1
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463; 821; 1272
GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30
Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic study of Vancouver Island with
emphasis on the relationships of mineral deposits to plutonic
rocks, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University
Houle, J. (2009-02-09): Technical Report on The Nahmint Property
Houle, J. (2013-11-30): Technical Report on the Nahmint Property
EMPR PFD 700045

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