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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Feb-1989 by Wim S. Vanderpoll (WV)

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NMI 092L2 Fe6
Name CAVALIER 4 (L.1967), WREN 2, ZEB 12 Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092L006
Status Showing NTS Map 092L02W
Latitude 050º 03' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 49' 17'' Northing 5547668
Easting 655931
Commodities Iron, Magnetite Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Cavalier magnetite occurrence lies within a belt dotted with about 9 similar occurrences that extend from the Zeballos River for about 8 kilometres in a northwest direction.

The Cavalier occurrence consists of several small lenses of massive magnetite with considerable pyrrhotite. The mineralization lies along the contact between diorite of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite Zeballos stock and Upper Triassic Vancouver Group Quatsino Formation limestone. The occurrence is similar to the Churchill (092L 031), which is located 1.5 kilometres to the north. Several open cuts have exposed mineralization measuring to 0.5 by 2.0 metres, striking northwest and dipping 60 degrees southwest. A float sample assayed 35.67 per cent iron (Property File - 1:3600 Geology Map, not dated).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 13665, 14457
EMPR BULL *27, p. 134
EMPR PF (Geology Map, not dated, see 092L 031)
GSC EC GEOL 1-1947
GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A; 1028A; 1552A
GSC MEM 204; 272
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 38-5; 69-1A; 70-1A; 71-36; 72-44; 74-8; 79-30
GSC SUM RPT 1929A
Carson, D.J.T., (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island with emphasis on the Relationship of Plutonic Rocks to Mineral Deposits, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa
Sangster, D.F., (1964): The Contact Metasomatic Magnetite Deposits of Southwestern British Columbia, Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 12312

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