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File Created: 25-Jan-2022 by Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:  25-Jan-2022 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name CAL B Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092E078
Status Showing NTS Map 092E10E
Latitude 049º 44' 37'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 30' 38'' Northing 5513099
Easting 679349
Commodities Marble, Limestone Deposit Types R04 : Dimension stone - marble
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The CAL B marble occurrence is situated approximately 700 metres south of the old Nootka Marble Quarry (MINFILE HISNET INLET 092E 020) on the east side of Hisnit Inlet. The site is approximately 33 kilometres west of Gold River and is accessed via roads off the Head Bay Forest Service Road between Gold Rover and Tahsis.

CAL B is one of the several marble showings / quarries within Callache Stone Quarries Inc.'s Tahsis property, including the Nootka Quarry, the CAL A prospect, the Century Limestone showing and the Tlupana Arm magnesite showing. The Triassic Quatsino Limestone Formation on the property wraps around an Eocene Quartz Diorite Stock situated in the south of the peninsula between Hisnit Inlet and Tlupana Inlet (Head Bay).

In 2016 and 2017, logging road rehabilitation exposed semi-continuous bedrock at the CAL B occurrence, consisting of approximately 99 per cent marble and 1 per cent intrusive dikes over a strike length of approximately 650 m.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1906-184; 1908-24,144; 1911-208; 1916-359
EMPR ASS RPT 31969, 32853, 32876, 35545, *36511
EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 329-332
EMPR INF CIRC 1988-6, pp. 23,29; 1992-18, pp. 31, 36; 2000-1, p. 11
GSC MAP 1537A
GSC OF 463, Sheet 2
GSC P 80-16, pp. 11,12
GSC SUM RPT 1920A, p. 21
CANMET RPT 452, Vol.5, pp. 163-171; 811, Part 5, pp. 138-140
Falconbridge File
EMPR PFD 884035

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