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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Feb-1990 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name CANADA, CANADA TRENCH Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F077
Status Showing NTS Map 092F15E
Latitude 049º 47' 11'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 36' 01'' Northing 5516109
Easting 384808
Commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The area is predominantly underlain by massive limestone of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group) cut by a suite of elongate hornblende-rich dioritic intrusions that commonly contain mafic xenoliths and occupy major fractures. Mafic diorite dykes exhibit varying degrees of endoskarn alteration but exoskarn halos are generally less than 1 metre thick and, in many places, are totally lacking.

The Canada showing is underlain by Quatsino Formation limestone cut by a north trending mafic diorite dyke. Mineralization is hosted in the skarn-altered dyke and comprises minor amounts of pyrite, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, galena and magnetite (see Loyal, 092F 265). Rock samples from massive magnetite skarn with chalcopyrite and pyrite assayed up to 15.94 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18672).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *5763, 9417, *18672
EMPR EXPL 1975-E104
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 257-265
EMPR OF 1988-28; 1990-3
GSC EC GEOL 3, pp. 86-102
GSC MAP 1386A; 17-1968
GSC MEM 58, p. 66
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50
GSC SUM RPT 1924 Part A, pp. 106-144

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