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File Created: 24-Jan-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  10-Feb-2023 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name NLS 11, NIMPKISH 1 Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L036
Status Showing NTS Map 092L07W
Latitude 050º 20' 34'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 52' 36'' Northing 5578899
Easting 651082
Commodities Silver, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The NLS 11 occurrence is located on the north side Kinman Creek at an elevation of 438 metres, approximately 4 kilometres east-southeast of the creek mouth on Nimpkish Lake.

North striking carbonates and calcareous sediments of the Quatsino and Parson Bay formations overlie Karmutsen Formation tholeiitic basalts, all of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group andesitic to rhyodacitic lava, tuff, breccia and minor sediments are coeval with, or genetically related to, granodiorite of the Nimpkish batholith of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. Strong, regional north to northwest trending faults, often defining intrusive and lithological contacts, traverse the area.

Locally, calcareous, brecciated and silicified argillites host disseminated to massive sphalerite and minor disseminated pyrite. A sample (NLS-11) assayed 4.7 grams per tonne silver and 6.37 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 20092).

During 1989 through 2006, J.W. Laird completed programs of rock sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Nimpkish and CBL 1-10 claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *20092, 24207, 24698, 25237, 25718, 27256, 28274
GSC ANN RPT 1886
GSC BULL 172; 242
GSC MAP *4-1974; 1029A
GSC MEM 272
GSC OF 9; 170; 463
GSC P 38-2; 38-3; 71-36; 72-44; *74-8
GSC SUM RPT 1929A; *1931A, p. 33A
CJES 18, p. 1; 20, p. 1 (Jan. 1983)
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

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