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File Created: 19-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  23-Dec-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MJ, BACON, BACON LAKE Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F092
Status Showing NTS Map 092F13E
Latitude 049º 58' 20'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 36' 47'' Northing 5538815
Easting 312633
Commodities Copper, Gold, Zinc, Iron Deposit Types K : SKARN
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The MJ (Bacon Lake) occurrence is located approximately 850 metres east of Bacon Lake at an elevation of approximately 560 metres.

The area is underlain by Karmutsen Formation volcanics that are overlain by Quatsino Formation limestone, both of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. These in turn are overlain by volcanics of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. Plutonic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite intrude these rocks and vary in composition from gabbro to quartz monzonite but are mainly granodiorite and quartz diorite.

Locally, andesite interbedded with limestone and calcareous sediments, is intruded by granodiorite. The volcanics have been silicified and in part altered to skarn along the contact, with disseminated and vein magnetite occurring in several places. In two locations the limestone has been completely turned to skarn and contains semi-massive to patchy magnetite with associated pyrite and lesser chalcopyrite and malachite.

In 1989, a sample (B-89-5B) of granodiorite assayed 0.255 per cent copper, 5.252 per cent zinc and 0.023 gram per tonne gold, as well as containing hematite, pyrrhotite and actinolite (Assessment Report 18946).

In 1987, R. Tessolini prospected the area as the Bacon claims. In 1989 and 1991, M. Sawiuk completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling and ground magnetometer surveys on the area. In 1997, IMA Resources Corporation completed a program of geochemical sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Bacon 1-4 claims. During 2009 through 2013, Western GateWay Minerals explored the area as part of the Bacon Lake property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 16321, 17395, *18946, 21193, 25513, 31508, 32805, 33963
EMPR BULL 3, 1917
EMPR EXPL 1987-C154; 1988-C92
EMPR P 1989-3
EMPR PF (Hings, D.L. (1951): Report on Preliminary Magnetic Survey of of the East Bacon Lake Area, B.C. Iron Ore Development Co. Ltd.; Bacon Lake Property drill logs, B.C. Iron Ore Development Co. Ltd., Jan.3, 1952; McDougall, J.J. (1961): Preliminary Report on the Bacon Lake and Willy Iron Prospects; McDougall, J.J. (1961): Report on Bacon Lake Magnetite (including drill logs on the Rock deposit); Magnetic Suvey map (1 inch=100 feet), Noranda, 1962)
GSC BULL 172
GSC EC GEOL #3, Vol.1, pp. 78-79
GSC MAP 2-1965; 17-1968; 1386A
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50; 71-36; 72-44
GSC SUM RPT 1930, Part A
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
Falconbridge File

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