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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 EAGLE HEIGHTS Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B062
Status Showing NTS Map 092B12E
Latitude 048º 39' 54'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 44' 09'' Northing 5390478
Easting 445819
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Eagle Heights showing is located on the southeast side of Eagle Heights Mountain between 550 and 610 metres elevation, 32 kilometres northwest of Victoria.

The showing consists of a 107 to 300 metre wide band of lime- stone of the Upper Pennsylvannian to Lower Permian Mount Mark Form- ation, Buttle Lake Group (previously Buttle Lake Formation, Sicker Group). The band, which trends westward for 1370 metres, 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.

The band is comprised of coarse-grained, light grey, fossil- iferous limestone with chert and volcanic inclusions. A chip sample taken across 55 metres contained 47.10 per cent CaO, 0.82 per cent MgO and 12.40 per cent insolubles (McCammon, 1973, page 8).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 23; 40
EMPR IND MIN FILE (McCammon, J.W. (1973): Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia (in Ministry Library))
EMPR OF 1992-18, pp. 19, 21
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM 96, p. 105
GSC OF 463
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 79-30
CANMET RPT 811
Lockie, D.A. (1957): A Petrographic Analysis of Some Limestones of Southwestern British Columbia, University of British Columbia, Unpublished B.A. Thesis

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