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File Created: 29-Nov-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  04-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name XEN 2 Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F022
Status Showing NTS Map 092F05E
Latitude 049º 15' 38'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 38' 34'' Northing 5459782
Easting 307721
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Xen 2 occurrence is located on the south eastern side of Tranquil Creek, approximately 5.75 kilometres northeast of the creek mouth.

The Tofino Inlet Pluton, of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite or the Mesozoic and/or Paleozoic Westcoast Complex, intrudes Paleozoic Sicker Group rocks. The plutonic rocks consist of quartz diorite and granodiorite. The Sicker rocks include volcanic breccias, tuffs, greenstone, greenschist and dikes and sills of andesite porphyry. The plutonic and volcanic rocks are transected by northeast trending faults.

Locally, a 0.75 metre wide quartz vein with blebs and disseminations of pyrite is hosted by a meta-andesite. The vein is steeply dipping with an east- west strike and can be traced over 600 metres. A sample of the vein assayed 0.56 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 13543).

In 1984 and 1985, Xenium Resources Inc. completed programs of geological mapping and rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the Xen 1 and Xen 2 claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *13543, 14075
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 61-74
EMPR OF *1988-28, p. 62
GSC BULL 172
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50, p. 38; 71-36; 72-44; 79-30
CJES Vol.24, No.10, 1987, pp. 2047-2064

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