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File Created: 06-Apr-1989 by Wim S. Vanderpoll (WV)
Last Edit:  31-May-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KLOOTCH, LES Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L042
Status Showing NTS Map 092L05E
Latitude 050º 27' 05'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 39' 56'' Northing 5589671
Easting 594736
Commodities Copper, Magnetite Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Klootch occurrence is located west of Klootchlimmis Creek, approximately 3.8 kilometres south of the creek mouth.

The area lies within the Insular Belt of the Cordillera and is underlain mainly by volcanics, crystalline rocks and minor sediments. Andesitic to rhyodacitic lava, tuff and breccia of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group overlie an assemblage consisting of Paleozoic Sicker Group sediments and Upper Triassic Vancouver Group basalts and minor carbonate and clastic sediments. The Bonanza volcanics are coeval with, or genetically related to, granodiorite stocks of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite which intrude all older rocks.

The occurrence consists of disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite in a magnetite rich subvolcanic albite-feldspar diorite dike intruding Upper Bonanza (?) clastic sediments.

Work History

During 1969 through 1974, Stokes Exploration, on the behalf of Brinco, completed a program of geological mapping, soil sampling and prospecting on the area as the Les claims. In 2014, Eden Venture Investments completed a minor program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling on the area as the Copper 1-4 claims of the Klootchlimmis Creek property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 34924
GSC P 69-1A; 70-1A; 72-44; 74-8
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC BULL 242
GSC SUM RPT 1918B; 1929A
GSC ANN RPT 1886
GSC MAP 4-1974; 255A; 1552A
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.
EMPR PF (Leighton, D.G., (1974): *Report on Exploration in Mahatta R. area, Brinco, in Les - 092L 230)
EMPR PFD 673366

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