82390 092F 042 Alberni YANKEE BOY 092F022 092F04E Prospect 49° 13' 26'' 125° 39' 35'' 49.223889 -125.659722 10 5455550 306450 Gold, Silver, Copper Insular Wrangell I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins The Yankee Boy occurrence is located on the western side of Tranquil Creek, approximately 1.5 kilometres north east of the creek mouth. The Tofino Inlet Pluton, of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite or the Mesozoic and/or Paleozoic Westcoast Complex, intrudes Paleozoic Sicker Group rocks. The plutonic rocks consist of quartz diorite and granodiorite. The Sicker rocks include volcanic breccias, tuffs, greenstone, greenschist and dikes and sills of andesite porphyry. The plutonic and volcanic rocks are transected by northeast trending faults. The showing occurs in an area underlain principally by quartz diorite. Precious metal bearing quartz veins were worked in 1940 and 1941. In 1940, 0.35 tonnes of ore was shipped and assayed 426.17 grams per tonne gold, 196.80 grams per tonne silver and 0.50 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1940, page 42). In 1941, 0.43 tonnes of ore was shipped and assayed 121.20 grams per tonne gold, 52.80 grams per tonne silver and 0.20 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1941, page 44). Reports indicate that the workings were subsequently buried when logging roads were constructed in the Tranquil creek area in the early 1960's and mid 1970's. In 1983 and 1984, Euro Petroleum Corp. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock and soil sampling on the area as the Tranquil property. Rock samples taken in the area of the old workings assayed as high as 0.75 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 12034). These samples were taken from 2 to 5 centimetre wide quartz veins in pyritized chloritically altered granitic country rock. In 1988, D.H. Wood completed a program of prospecting. This included the blasting of several pits which revealed a 20 to 45 centimetre wide north west striking quartz vein containing approximately 5 per cent pyrite and minor chalcopyrite (Assessment Report 17764). EMPR AR *1940-27,42; *1941-44; *1946-184 EMPR ASS RPT *12034, *13441, *17764 EMPR EXPL 1983-203, 1984-162, 1988-C85 EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 61-74 GSC MAP 17-1968;1386A GSC OF 463 GSC P 68-50; 72-44; 79-30 CJES Vol.24, No.10, 1987, pp. 2047-2064 Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic Study of Vancouver Island With Emphasis on the Relationships of Mineral Deposits to Plutonic Rocks, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University Isachsen, C. (1984): Geology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Westcoast Crystalline Complex and Related Rocks, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia EMPR PFD 600445