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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  07-Jul-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name KENNEDY LAKE WEST Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F002
Status Showing NTS Map 092F04E
Latitude 049º 03' 16'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 36' 29'' Northing 5436785
Easting 309457
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

A mass of medium-grained, dark grey Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Quatsino Formation limestone outcropping over a 950 by 630 metre area forms a low isolated hill 1.7 kilometres west of Kennedy Lake, 60 kilometres west-southwest of Port Alberni. The limestone is underlain by fine-grained argillite or tuff with a contact that dips shallowly to the northeast. The limestone is intruded on the east side by small stock of gabbro and basalt.

A sample of randomly collected chips from an exposure on the northwest corner of the hill contained 54.98 per cent CaO, 0.49 per cent MgO, 0.70 per cent insolubles, 0.22 per cent R2O3, 0.14 per cent Fe2O3, 0.012 per cent MnO, traces of P2O5, 0.001 per cent sulphur and 43.46 per cent ignition loss (Annual Report 1962, page 153, Sample 2).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1962-53
EMPR BULL 55, p. 21
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by J.W. McCammon, 1973, p. 11 (in Ministry Library))
EMPR OF 1992-18, pp. 37, 40
GSC MAP 17-1968
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50, pp. 14,15
EMPR PFD 672818

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