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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 COBBLE HILL Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B062
Status Showing NTS Map 092B12E
Latitude 048º 41' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 36' 48'' Northing 5392436
Easting 454856
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Cobble Hill showing is located on Lot 11, 800 metres west- southwest of Cobble Hill Station on the E & N Railway, 35 kilometres northwest of Victoria.

Limestone, at least 30 metres thick, of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Mount Mark Formation, Buttle Lake Group (previously Buttle Lake Formation, Sicker Group) is exposed over a small area. The limestone, and associated chert, argillite and tuff, dip gently north. The limestone is similar to that of Bonner's Quarry (092B 018), about 400 metres to the east, containing numerous crinoid and shell fragments.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL *23, pp. 54,55; *40, pp. 44-45
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM 13; 96
GSC OF 463
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 79-30, p. 8

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