MERRYTH, IRON MOUNTAIN, RALPH, IRON MINE HILL Prospects.
The area is underlain by the Eocene Sooke Gabbro, which forms the basement of the Metchosin Volcanics and is composed of coarse- grained gabbro with about equal parts of bytownite and diopside and about 5 per cent olivine. Dykes of leucogabbro contain up to 80 per cent bytownite. Local agmatization, amphibolitization and mineralization of the gabbro apparently occurred later along shear zones.
The Merryth deposit is on the southwest shore of the Sooke Peninsula, due south of Iron Mine Hill. The main altered zone, made up of hornblende and masses of unaltered gabbro, trends up the hill from the shore at about 025 degrees for 460 metres. The deposit is divided into two zones based on a horizontal offset of 15 to 30 metre which is a result of crossfaulting. South of the crossfault the deposit has been called the Merryth zone and to the north it has been called the Iron Mountain zone. The deposit is generally known as the Merryth. (extract from MINFILE No 092B 007).
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