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File Created: 30-Jun-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  21-Feb-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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NMI
Name SARITA RIVER LIMESTONE Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092C086
Status Showing NTS Map 092C15W
Latitude 048º 53' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 59' 13'' Northing 5417285
Easting 354358
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Sarita River limestone showing outcrops on the river, 2.5 kilometres east of Numukamis Bay on the west side of Barclay Sound. Limestone of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group), up to 750 metres wide, extends westward for 2.5 kilometres along the Sarita River. The deposit is bounded to the east, west and south by mafic volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). The limestone is in fault contact with Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics to the north.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR OF 1988-24; RGS 24, 1990
EMPR PF (In 092C General File - Aeromagnetic Contour Map, Nitinat Lake Area, Noranda Mines Ltd., date unknown)
GSC BULL 23; 40
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463; 821; 1272
GSC P 72-44; 76-1A; 79-30
GSC SUM RPT 1902, pp. 61,63
CANMET RPT 811, p. 141
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
Falconbridge File

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