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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Jul-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name GREENSTONE CREEK, UPPER CAMPBELL LAKE, CAMPBELL RIVER Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F092
Status Showing NTS Map 092F13E, 092K04E
Latitude 049º 59' 55'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 37' 52'' Northing 5541794
Easting 311442
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

A band of Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Quatsino Formation limestone, up to 1500 metres wide, trends north-northwest for 8 kilo- metres, crossing Greenstone Creek 4.8 kilometres above its mouth, northwest of Upper Campbell Lake. The northeastward dipping limestone bed is bounded to the west by basalts of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation and to the east by Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics and sediments. To the south, the band is truncated by a northeast trending fault.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 23, p. 91; 40, p. 84
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by J.W. McCammon, 1973, p. 13 (in Ministry Library))
EMPR P 1984-3
GSC MAP 17-1968
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50, pp. 14,15
GSC SUM RPT 1930A, pp. 61,62

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