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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 PRICE CREEK, BIG INTERIOR MOUNTAIN Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F043
Status Showing NTS Map 092F05E
Latitude 049º 29' 51'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 30' 39'' Northing 5485793
Easting 318196
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

A mass of light grey to white, recrystallized limestone of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Azure Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group) trends northward for 500 metres on the north side of Price Creek, at the south end of the Buttle Lake uplift. The lime- stone is underlain to the southwest by volcanic breccia, tuff and argillite of the Paleozoic Sicker Group and overlain to the east by pillowed basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). Refer to the H-W deposit (092F 330) for a discussion of the revised nomenclature of the Buttle Lake uplift stratigraphy.

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

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