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File Created: 29-Oct-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  07-Nov-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KETTLE POT, KETTLE POT CREEK, PICK, CAL Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092L063
Status Showing NTS Map 092L12E
Latitude 050º 38' 38'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 33' 45'' Northing 5611211
Easting 601637
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Kettle Pot occurrence is located along a small, southeast-flowing creek, referred to as Kettle Pot Creek, approximately 1.2 kilometres northwest of the northeastern end of Quatse Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by northwest-trending belts of basaltic volcanics and carbonate sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen and Quatsino formations (Vancouver Group) and mafic volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group (Holberg volcanic unit, Nahwitti River wacke and Parson Bay Formation). These volcanic and sedimentary rocks have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Locally, skarn zones have been developed between two thin limestone horizons hosting massive sulphide (pyrite-chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite-magnetite) mineralization up to 0.3 metre thick.

In 1995, sampling of mineralized blasted(?) boulders next to the skarn zone yielded up to 1.18 per cent copper and 0.63 gram per tonne gold (Sample 28169; Assessment Report 25408).

The area has been explored since the early 1920s in conjunction with the nearby Caledonia (MINFILE 092L 061) occurrence.

In 1981, Energex Minerals Ltd. completed an airborne electromagnetic survey on the area as the Pick claims. In 1988, a 390.0 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey was completed on the area. In 1989, Hisway Resources Corp. prospected the area and completed a single drillhole, totalling 152.9 metres, on the area.

During 1993 through 1997, Winfield Resources Ltd. completed programs of soil and rock sampling, geological mapping, ground geophysical surveys and two diamond drill holes on the area.

In 2016, the area was prospected by Tech-X Resources Ltd.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 9853, 17580, 19417, 23268, 24787, *25408ΒΈ, 37001
EMPR GEM 1970-254,265
GSC BULL 242
GSC MAP 4-1974; 1552A
GSC OF 9; 170; 463; 722
GSC P 69-1A; 72-44; *74-8; 79-30
GSC SUM RPT 1929A, p. 123
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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