MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092E 021

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	10-Dec-2013	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	CONTACT, PETE, IRON KING, FLORES, S.FLO	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092E030
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092E08E
Latitude	049º 17' 38''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	126º 05' 05''	Northing	5464216
		Easting	711960
Commodities	Copper, Iron, Magnetite	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The Contact occurrence is located west of Matilda Inlet, on the eastern coast of Flores Island.

Geological Survey of Canada Map 1537A indicates the area is underlain by the Upper Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic West Coast Complex which is intruded by granodiorite of the Eocene Catface Intrusions.

Ministry of Mines Annual Report 1907 (page 186) reports the occurrence as a north trending zone of pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite mineralization in a basic volcanic rock.

Ministry of Mines Annual Report 1915 (page 287) reports an iron ore showing, 30.0 by 6.0 metres in size. Based on other occurrences in the vicinity, this is thought to be an igneous contact type deposit.

There is some ambiguity about the location of this occurrence and that of adjacent ones (092E 022; 092E 033).

In 1962, Van-West Minerals completed a induced polarization survey on the area as the Contact and Ormond claims. In 1969, Falconbridge completed a program of silt and soil sampling and the area as the Flo group. In 1979 and 1981, Clear Mines completed programs of geological mapping, rock and soil sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area. In 1987 and 1988, Parallax Development completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping, an induced polarization survey and twenty-eight diamond drill holes, totalling 2538.1 metres on the area as the Contact and Au claims.

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1906-186; 1915-287; 1916-334; 1929-375; 1931-168; 1932-204;

1935-G46; 1963-126; 1966-74; 1967-74

EMPR ASS RPT 465, 2317, 8056, *9658, 17428, 18965

EMPR EXPL 1980-162

EMPR GEM 1969-216; 1972-262

EMPR PF (Parallax Resources Prospectus, 1988; various maps; map with

claims and work plan; Hawkins, T.G. (1987): Summary report on

Geology, Lithogeochemistry, Soil Geochemistry and Magnetometer

Survey, Contact 1,2,3 Group for Parallax Development Corporation)

GSC MAP 1027A; 1537A

GSC MEM 272

GSC OF 463

GSC P 71-36; 72-44; 80-16

CIM TRANS Vol. 72-116

GCNL #111,#146, 1988; #113,#123,#218 (1990); #29,#113,#171,#263(1991)

Carson, D.J.T., (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with

emphasis on the Relationship of Plutonic Rocks to Mineral Deposits,

Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa

EMPR PFD 650139, 6320