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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  26-Sep-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name TAP I, PAR II, PARSONS CREEK, LOFSTROM Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F007
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 01' 24'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 42' 55'' Northing 5431467
Easting 374601
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Tap I occurrence is located to the north of Parsons Creek, approximately 2.3 kilometres southwest of the former producing WWW mine (MINFILE 092F 141).

The area is underlain by volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). Diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Intrusions lie to the northeast and northwest.

Mineralized quartz veins hosted in andesite and volcanic breccia occur within two main fracture zones. One of these zones strikes at 065 degrees and the other at 005 degrees. Mineralization consists of disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite and malachite. The extent of the mineralization appears to be controlled by the fracture zones.

A grab sample across 30 centimetres of rusty, sheared and altered andesite assayed 0.55 gram per tonne gold, 34.3 grams per tonne silver and 6.75 per cent copper (Assessment Report 16119).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 12735, 14520, 14987, *16119, 27833, 28490, 29111
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR EXPL 1984-153; 1986-162
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
EMPR PF (Laanela, H. (1966): *Report, Gunnex Limited)
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963
GSC OF 463; 1272
GSC P 68-50; 79-30
CIM BULL Vol. 83 No. 935, March 1990 pp. 125-135
EMPR PFD 7830

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