MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 103B 055

File Created:	07-Jul-1986	by	Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:	03-Mar-1989	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI	103B3 Cu1
Name	RASPBERRY COVE, THREE GAMBLERS, N.B.	Mining Division	Skeena
		BCGS Map	103B015
Status	Showing	NTS Map	103B03E
Latitude	052º 09' 54''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	131º 04' 16''	Northing	5781413
		Easting	358348
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The showing is located just above sea level on Houston Stewart Channel, one kilometre west of Point Langford.

The beach outcrop was discovered in 1968.

The area is underlain by greenstone of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group Karmutsen Formation which is cut by quartz monzonite of the Carpenter Bay pluton, part of the Tertiary Kano Plutonic Suite (Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 90-10, pages 59-87). Copper mineralization occurs in small veins in the rocks. A beach outcrop of a well-mineralized porphyry gave values of 7.08 per cent (across 60 centimetres) and 8.95 per cent (float) copper (Assessment Report 1245).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1968-283 EMPR ASS RPT 1245, 9014 EMPR BULL 54, p. 220 EMPR EXPL 1980-363-4 EMPR FIELDWORK 1997, 19-1-19-14 GSC MAP 1385A GSC P 88-1E, pp. 213-216, 221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 59-87 MIN REV Mar./Apr., 1988, pp. 19-24 EMPR PFD 17121