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MINFILE No  092F 174
File Created: 05-Apr-1990 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  12-May-1998 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name STURT BAY Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F078
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092F15E
Latitude 049º 45' 52'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 34' 11'' Northing 5513623
Easting 386956
Commodities Limestone, Marble, Dimension Stone, Building Stone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
R04 : Dimension stone - marble
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Sturt Bay occurrence is underlain by massive, recrystallized limestone of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group) near a small quartz monzonite-granodiorite plug.

In the Sturt Bay quarry, the limestone is medium grained, white to light grey and traversed by numerous small irregular fractures and occasional strong jointing. Quarry production statistics are not available.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 257-265
EMPR OF 1990-3; 1988-28
GSC EC GEOL 3, pp. 86-102
GSC MAP 1386A; 17-1968
GSC MEM *58, p. 96
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50
GSC SUM RPT 1924 Part A, pp. 106-144
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