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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Apr-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name BEAUTY LAKE, NINE PEAKS, BIG INTERIOR MOUNTAIN Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F043
Status Showing NTS Map 092F05E
Latitude 049º 25' 54'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 31' 37'' Northing 5478514
Easting 316785
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

Two small masses of light grey to white recrystallized limestone of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Azure Lake Formation, Buttle Lake Group occur on the southeast side of Beauty Lake, within the Buttle Lake uplift. Refer to the H-W deposit (092F 330) for a discussion of the nomenclature revisions of the Buttle Lake uplift stratigraphy.

A 140 metre wide limestone mass adjacent to the lake shore strikes 072 degrees for 350 metres and dips 30 degrees south. A se- cond mass, 700 metres to the southeast, outcrops over a 280 by 420 metre area. Both masses are underlain to the north by volcanic brec- cia, tuff and argillite of the Paleozoic Sicker Group and are over- lain to the south by pillowed basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 13, pp. 17-21
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by J.W. McCammon, 1973, p. 11 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 17-1968
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50, p. 8; 79-30, p. 18
GSC SUM RPT 1930A, pp. 59,60
PERS COMM Massey, Nick, Feb. 1990
Juras, S.S. (1987): Geology of the Polymetallic Volcanogenic Buttle Lake Camp, with Emphasis on the Price Hillside, Central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia

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