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File Created: 01-Aug-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  12-Aug-2022 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name WASP (L.333), GOLD NUGGET, NAHMINT Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F006
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02W
Latitude 049º 00' 50'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 59' 47'' Northing 5430920
Easting 354024
Commodities Silver, Copper Deposit Types K : SKARN
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Wasp (L.333) occurrence is located on a tributary of Cass Creek, approximately 1 kilometre northwest of the creek mouth and 29 kilometres southwest of Port Alberni.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group) limestone in contact with andesite of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. The strata is intruded by diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The intrusive has altered the limestone to masses of garnet and epidote, while the andesite is intensely fractured and metamorphosed, containing bunches and stringers of garnet, epidote and tremolite.

Locally, a diopside-epidote-tremolite altered limestone and volcanics host massive sulphide mineralization consisting of copper (chalcopyrite?) and pyrite mineralization.

In 1988 and 1989, Barona Resources completed programs of soil and rock sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Gold Nugget claim. Chip samples C4898 and C4900 assayed 66.8 and 65.2 grams per tonne silver, respectively, with greater than 1 per cent copper (Assessment Report 17714).

In 2007 through 2013, Nahminto Resources completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling, a ground magnetometer survey and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the TJM claims, part of the Nahmint property. In 2013, Equitas Resources Corp. conducted geological mapping, rock, soil and stream moss mat sampling at the Three Jays North area of the Nahmint property.

In 2020 a structural analysis via photo interpretation and minor prospecting and stream and rock sampling were conducted on the Nahmint property for tenure holder B. McKinney.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 3, 1917
GSC BULL 172
GSC EC GEOL No.3, Vol.1
GSC MAP 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50; 71-36; 72-44
CANMET RPT #47
Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with Emphasis on the Relationships of Mineral Deposits to Plutonic Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University
Houle, J. (2009-02-09): Technical Report on The Nahmint Property
Houle, J. (2013-11-30): Technical Report on the Nahmint Property

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