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MINFILE No  092B 070
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  25-Jul-1990 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name HOPE BAY, NORTH PENDER ISLAND Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B084
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092B14W
Latitude 048º 48' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 16' 38'' Northing 5405692
Easting 479644
Commodities Sandstone, Dimension Stone, Building Stone Deposit Types R06 : Dimension stone - sandstone
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Wrangell
Capsule Geology

A hard, coarse-grained sandstone member of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group was quarried at Hope Bay on North Pender Island in 1896. The formation strikes 150 degrees and dips 20 degrees to the southwest.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 385-392
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM 13; 96
GSC OF 463
GSC P 1972-44; 1975-1A, p. 23; 1979-30
CANMET RPT *452, Volume V, p. 57
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