The Kennedy Lake East limestone occurrence is located on the southeastern shore of Kennedy Lake, approximately 11 kilometres northeast of Ucluelet, B.C.
The occurrence is comprised of an irregular belt of calcareous rocks of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Quatsino Formation. The belt extends north eastwards from the south slope of Salmonberry Mountain along the southeast shore of Kennedy Lake for 9 kilometres, 54 kilometres southwest of Port Alberni.
These sediments consist of a lower limestone member at least 600 metres thick overlain by 240 metres of calcareous tuff, which in turn, is overlain by 110 metres of limestone. Dips vary from 40 to 60 degrees southeast in the northwest and gradually flatten out along the belt to the southwest. The southwestern third of the belt is folded into a northeast trending syncline that preserves the calcareous tuff and upper limestone member and an overlying sequence of Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group pyroclastic andesites. The syncline is terminated to the southwest by a fault and partially truncated to the northeast, on the north slope of Salmonberry Mountain, by a mass of granodiorite and quartz monzonite of the Jurassic Island Intrusions. This mass flanks the limestone along the northeastern two-thirds of the belt. The limestone is also intruded by a few dikes, sills and small stocks of fine-grained andesite.
The upper and lower limestone members are composed of dark grey to white, commonly medium grey, medium to coarse-grained limestone that is extensively recrystallized. Some zones of mottled dolomite are present. Plates and nodules of brucite are disseminated in the upper limestone member where it is truncated by the granitic intrusion on the north slope of Salmonberry Mountain. Yellow ankerite grains occur in a few places. Sporadic pyrite is also evident. Rounded grains of quartz are occasionally visible in thin section.
A sample comprised of chips taken at 3.0 metre intervals along 91 metres of roadcut on Highway 4, 400 metres west of the turn off to Maggie Lake, contained 54.80 per cent CaO, 0.74 per cent MgO, 0.84 per cent insolubles, 0.17 per cent R2O3, 0.11 per cent Fe2O3, 0.008 per cent MnO, trace of P2O5, 0.002 per cent sulphur and 43.37 per cent ignition loss (Annual Report 1962, page 153, Sample 3).
From 1984 to 1986 prospecting and rock sampling was carried out for First Coast Mineral Corp. on the Kennedy Sulphides Group, including Kennedy Lake East (Assessment Report 14704).
In 1992, Can. Wes. Res. completed a reconnaissance program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling for high purity Quatsino limestone in the area as the Dawley Claim.
During 1995 through 2009, Consolidated Logan Mines Limited and later Logan Resources Limited, completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and an induced polarization survey on the Lucky and Redford properties.
In 2011, Logan Resources Ltd. and joint venture partner Ridgemont Iron Ore Corp. conducted ground geophysics (including Kennedy Lake East) and drilling over the Redford property. The 2011 Ridgemont diamond drill program, east of Draw Creek and the Brynnor Pit, consisted of 61 holes totalling 10, 234.58 metres utilizing 29 drill pads. The program coverage was categorized into three zones: the Main, East and North zones. The drill results from the East zone confirmed that magnetite mineralization was similar in strike and dip to that found in the Main zone.
