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File Created: 24-Feb-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KING 10 Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L072
Status Showing NTS Map 092L13W
Latitude 050º 46' 15'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 45' 55'' Northing 5625068
Easting 587065
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The King 10 occurrence is located 1 kilometre northeast of Lake of the Mountains.

The area is underlain by tholeiitic basalt and homogeneous basic sheet flows of the Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). Minor amounts of pyroclastic rocks and metasediments have also been reported.

Locally, disseminated malachite, bornite and chalcopyrite occur within an amygdaloidal andesite or basalt and in quartz veinlets cutting the andesite.

In 1990, the King claims were staked by Transtel Communications and a program of prospecting, geological mapping, and geochemical sampling was completed over the following two years. In 1991, a sample of mineralized quartz vein material returned values up to 0.22 per cent copper and 1150 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 21520).

Between 1993 and 1995, Westward Explorations completed programs of geological mapping, prospecting, geochemical sampling, magnetic - and VLF-EM surveys, and trenching. This work identified an area of coincidental geophysical and soil gold anomalies on the King 10 claim.

In 2019, Xplore Resource Corp. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock, soil and stream sediment) sampling on the area as part of the Valk property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 20183, *21520, 22846, 24283, 38450
EMPR PFD 907916
Xplore Resources Corp. (2019-11-04): Technical Report on the Valk Property, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Robb, W. (2021-03-06): Technical Report on the Valk Property, Nanaimo Mining Division, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

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