MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092C 114

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	15-Jun-2020	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI	092C16 Mn4
Name	WARDROPER, WARDROPER CREEK, STRIKER, COTT 6, COTT	Mining Division	Victoria
		BCGS Map	092C099
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C16W
Latitude	048º 55' 56''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 16' 28''	Northing	5420704
		Easting	406659
Commodities	Rhodonite, Manganese, Gemstones	Deposit Types	Q02 : Rhodonite
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Wardroper showings are located 4 kilometres north of Cowichan Lake and 88 kilometres northwest of Victoria.

The occurrence comprises several lenses of rhodonite and yellow manganiferous chert in cherty tuff of the Lower Mississippian Shaw Creek Member (dated by conodonts, Personal Communication - Nick Massey, 1991) of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation, Buttle Lake Group.

Individual lenses are less than 30 centimetres wide but together they total about 3 metres and are exposed for about 6 metres along strike. The lenses are parallel to bedding which strikes 165 degrees and dips 55 degrees northeast.

The showing was first reported in 1939. From 1985 through 1989, BHP-Utah Mines completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and ground and airborne geophysical surveys.

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT 13962, 14302, 15117, 16210, 17736, 19028

EMPR BULL *37, p. 69

EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 223-229; 1987, pp. 81-91; 1989, pp. 503-510

EMPR MP MAP 1992-2

EMPR OF 1987-2; RGS 24, 1990

GSC MAP 1386A

GSC MEM 13

GSC OF 463; 821; 1272

GSC P 72-44; 72-53; 76-1A; 79-30

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

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

Danner, W. R. (1976): Gem Materials of B.C.

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Island and Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Unpublished B.Sc.

Thesis, University of British Columbia

Harrington, E. (2010-10-22): Technical Report on the El Capitan Property