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MINFILE No 092C 076

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	27-Nov-2014	by	Laura deGroot (LDG)

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		NMI
Name	CANDY, STRIKER, MEADE CREEK	Mining Division	Victoria
		BCGS Map	092C090
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C16E
Latitude	048º 53' 27''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 05' 45''	Northing	5415899
		Easting	419674
Commodities	Copper, Gold, Silver, Rhodonite, Gemstones	Deposit Types	J03 : Mn veins and replacements Q02 : Rhodonite
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Candy showings are located on the western side of a northern tributary of Meade Creek, about 8 kilometres north east of the community of Lake Cowichan.

The area is underlain by Devonian Nitinat Formation Formation (Sicker Group) volcanics and Mississippian to Pennsylvannian Fourth Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group) sediments intruded by sills, dykes and granitic rocks probably of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The area is highly faulted and major folds are present. The Paleozoic Sicker Group rocks have undergone greenschist metamorphism.

The showings are underlain by massive basaltic flows, vesicular flows, tuffs, andesitic tuffs, cherty tuffs and argillite. Granodiorite and diorite plugs are exposed on the property.

Mineralization occurs in intrusion-related veins and shear zones, replacement pods of rhodonite, rhodochrosite and jasper, and syndepositional pyrite in argillites.

The original Candy showing consisted of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite in quartz veins in fractured and sheared andesites and basalts. The location of this showing is uncertain.

In the mid- 1980’s, BHP-Utah Mines completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and ground and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the Striker property. In 1986, samples of a diorite body containing fracture pyrite and quartz veins with disseminated pyrite assayed 0.32 to 0.912 grams per tonne gold, 3.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.0319 to 0.0604 per cent copper (Assessment Report 15117). A sample from a shear zone (85SNT-107) assayed 0.510 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 15117). Sample #85SBT-23 from a south flowing creek contains a 3 millimetre band of rhodonite which assayed 0.5 per cent copper, 5.5 grams per tonne silver and 0.55 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 15117).

A second rhodonite occurrence was noted along the eastern road and was banded with spessartine and jasper (Assessment Report 15117). The manganese minerals are hosted in the Lower Mississippian Shaw Creek Member (dated by conodonts, Personal Communication - Nick Massey, 1991).

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT 13962, 14302, *15117, 16210

EMPR BULL 37

EMPR FIELDWORK 1978, pp. 38-40; 1986, pp. 223-229; 1987, pp. 81-91;

1989, pp. 503-510

EMPR GEM *1969-223

EMPR MP MAP 1992-2

EMPR OF *1987-2; RGS 24,1990

EMPR PF (In General File: B.C. Forest Products Road Map, Cowichan

Lake Area, 1963; In Commodity File - Sargent, H. (1956): Manganese

occurrences in B.C. and Leaming, S.F. (1966): Rhodonite in B.C. in

The Canadian Rockhound and Danner, W. R. (1976): Gem Materials of

B.C.; Prospectors Report 2000-15 by Gordon Henriksen)

GSC MAP 1386A

GSC MEM 13

GSC OF 463; 821; 1272

GSC P 72-44; 72-53; 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

Cowley, P. (1979): Correlation of Rhodonite Deposits on Vancouver

Island and Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Unpublished B.Sc.

Thesis, University of British Columbia

Sargent, H. (1939): Manganese Deposits of Cowichan Lake

Munition Resources Commission of Canada, 1920, p.92