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MINFILE No  092B 130
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Sep-1990 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name QUAMICHAN LAKE Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B082
Status Showing NTS Map 092B13E
Latitude 048º 48' 25'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 38' 29'' Northing 5406193
Easting 452906
Commodities Diatomite Deposit Types F06 : Lacustrine diatomite
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Wrangell
Capsule Geology

Thirty to sixty centimetres of impure, gritty diatomite, high in alumina, occurs over an area of 2.4 hectares adjacent Quamichan Lake. The diatomite in this region is of Recent age and mainly unconsolid- ated. The area is underlain by sedimentary rock of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Diatomite Occurrences in BC (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM 13; 36; 96
GSC OF 463; 701
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 79-30
CAMMET RPT *691 (Diatomite), p. 83
PERS COMM Hora, D. (Geological Survey Branch), Oct.1, 1989
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