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File Created: 11-Apr-1988 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  24-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name OLSEN Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F007
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 01' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 38' 05'' Northing 5431985
Easting 380504
Commodities Copper, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Olsen showing is located on Mount Olsen, 25 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.

Tholeiitic basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) are intruded by diorite to quartz diorite and minor feldspar porphyry of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite (Corrigan Creek pluton). An intra-formational layer of limestone and narrow band of dacite occur within the volcanics. A northeast trending joint or fracture system cuts all rock types. Diorites of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Intrusions occur to the west.

Locally, a 600 metre long zone hosts disseminated and stringer pyrrhotite, pyrite and minor sphalerite, magnetite and chalcopyrite and occurs in basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). The basalts are locally altered to chlorite and epidote-saussurite.

Samples assayed up to 0.08 per cent copper (Assessment Report 13857).

Between 2006 and 2008, the area immediately north was prospected by D.J. McLelland as the Les claim. In 2007 and 2008, Auracle Geospatial Science Inc. completed geophysical programs of spectral analysis and gamma ray surveys. In 2008, a spectral analysis program was completed on the area as the Crystal 1 and 2 claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 13723, *13857, 30068
EMPR BULL 37
EMPR EXPL 1985-137,138
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988 pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1987-2; 1988-24; *1989-6
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
GCNL #84,#97,Dec.10, 1986

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