Deposit (sub) types: |
two cylindrical massive ore lenses transgressive to the host limestone beds merge at 60 m depth; located 300 m east of Cost Copper stock; sulphides and skarn minerals are scarce in the deposit ; Reference: Sangster, D. F., 1969: The Contact Metasomatic Magnetite deposits of Southwestern British Columbia; Bulletin, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada, Publication code 172, 85 p., 9 maps. located 100 m northeast of Merry Widow deposit; breccia along post-ore Kingfisher fault with coarse calcite matrix; ore fragments cut by coarser magnetite veins and rimmed by botryoidal magnetite; Reference: Sangster, D. F., 1969: The Contact Metasomatic Magnetite deposits of Southwestern British Columbia; Bulletin, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada, Publication code 172, 85 p., 9 maps. |
References: |
British Columbia Mines and Energy, 2001 |
British Columbia MINFILE Database |
Government of British Columbia, MINFILE Mineral Inventory, Internet |
Carson, D. J. T., 1973 |
The Plutonic Rocks of Vancouver Island, British Columbia: Their Petrography, Chemistry, Age and Emplacement |
Paper, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada, Publication code 72-44, 70 p. |
Eastwood, G. E. P., 1965 |
Replacement Magnetite on Vancouver Island, British Columbia |
Economic Geology, Volume 60, p. 124 - 148 |
Ettlinger, A. D.; Ray, G. E., 1990 |
Precious Metal Enriched Skarns in British Columbia: An Overview and Geological Study |
Paper, Geological Survey Branch, Mineral Resources Division, British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Province of British Columbia, Canada, Publication code 1989-3, 128 p., 1 maps. |
Gross, G. A., 1996 |
Skarn Iron |
20. Skarn Deposits, Section 20.4 Skarn Iron, in Geology of Canadian Mineral Deposit Types, Edited by Eckstrand, O. R.; Sinclair, W. D.; Thorpe, R. I., Geology of Canada, Decade of North American Geology (DNAG), Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Society of America, Volume 8, 640 p, p. 489 - 495 |
Hudson, R., 1997 |
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Orca Book Publishers, PO Box 5626, Station B, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 214 p. |
Meinert, L. D., 1984 |
Mineralogy and Petrology of Iron Skarns in Western British Columbia, Canada |
Economic Geology, Volume 79, p. 869 - 882 |
Meinert, L. D., 1992 |
Skarns and Skarn Deposits |
Geoscience Canada, Volume 19, p. 145 - 162 |
Muller, J. E., 1977 |
Geology of Vancouver Island |
Open File Report, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 463, 1 maps. |
Sangster, D. F., 1969 |
The Contact Metasomatic Magnetite deposits of Southwestern British Columbia |
Bulletin, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada, Publication code 172, 85 p., 9 maps. |
Southerland-Brown, A., 1966 |
Tectonic History of the Insular Belt of British Columbia |
in A Symposium on the Tectonic History and Mineral Deposits of the Western Cordillera in British Columbia and Neighbouring Parts of the United States, Edited by Anonymous, Special Volume, Geological Society, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 8, 353 p, p. 83 - 100 |
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