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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  29-Jun-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name DEVEREUX LAKE, MALAHAT Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B052
Status Showing NTS Map 092B12E
Latitude 048º 32' 12'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 36' 29'' Northing 5376130
Easting 455114
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Devereux Lake showing is located just west of the lake, 23 kilometres northwest of Victoria.

A band of fine to medium-grained, dark grey to white limestone extends for 366 metres northwest from a point 60 metres west of the west end of Devereux Lake. The limestone, hosted in the Colquitz Gneiss is exposed over an average width of 46 metres. The band, to the northwest, doubles back around the nose of an anticline that plunges steeply northwest.

The Colquitz Gneiss is thought to be the metamorphic equivalent of a silicic unit of the Paleozoic Sicker Group, the latest metamorphism having taken place in the Jurassic.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 40, page 88
GSC MAP 1553A
GSC OF 463
GAC FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK Trip 7 - Muller, J.E. (1977): Geology of Vancouver Island

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