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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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Name WILD DEER CREEK Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B062
Status Showing NTS Map 092B12W
Latitude 048º 39' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 47' 52'' Northing 5390246
Easting 441256
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Wild Deer Creek showing outcrops on the west side of the creek, 42 kilometres northwest of Victoria.

The showing consists of a limestone lens of the Upper Pennsylvannian to Lower Permian Mount Mark Formation, Buttle Lake Group (previously Buttle Lake Formation, Sicker Group). The lens is up to 180 metres wide and extends for 518 metres southwest from Wild Deer Lake. The lens is overlain to the northwest by metabasalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group and underlain to the southeast by sediments of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation, Sicker Group.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (McCammon, J.W. (1973): Limestone Occurrences in B.C.(in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 79-30, p.18

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