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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 DELLA LAKE, BIG INTERIOR MOUNTAIN Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F043
Status Showing NTS Map 092F05E
Latitude 049º 26' 39'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 32' 57'' Northing 5479958
Easting 315220
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Della Lake showing consists of various small masses of light grey to white recrystallized limestone of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Azure Lake Formation, Buttle Lake Group. They form a discontinuous band extending westward for 1600 metres from the south end of Della Lake, at the south end of the Buttle Lake uplift. Bed- ding strikes between 085 and 100 degrees and dips 20 to 70 degrees south. The limestone is underlain by volcanic breccia, tuff and argillite of the Paleozoic Sicker Group and overlain 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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