MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092C 118

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	30-Jun-1989	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	DIXON ISLAND, BARKLEY SOUND	Mining Division	Alberni
		BCGS Map	092C085
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092C14E
Latitude	048º 51' 10''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 07' 12''	Northing	5413257
		Easting	344486
Commodities	Limestone	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell


Capsule Geology	Limestone is reported to occur on Dixon Island and Dixon Point in Barclay Sound, within the Paleozoic and/or Mesozoic Westcoast Complex.

Bibliography

EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 503-510

EMPR IND MIN FILE (McGammon, J.W. (1973): Limestone occurrences of B.C. - (in Ministry Library))

EMPR OF 1988-24 p.21; RGS 24, 1990

GSC BULL 23; 40

GSC MAP 1386A

GSC MEM 13

GSC OF 463; 821; 1272

GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30

Carson, D.J.T. (1968): Metallogenic study of Vancouver Island with emphasis on the relationships of mineral deposits to plutonic rocks, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University