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MINFILE No  092F 352
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 WHITE RIDGE Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F071
Status Showing NTS Map 092F13W
Latitude 049º 46' 10'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 57' 32'' Northing 5517199
Easting 286948
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

A northwest trending mass of Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Quatsino Formation limestone occurs just west of the Strathcona Park Boundary, 58 kilometres southwest of the town of Campbell River. The mass is up to 1000 metres wide, outcropping for 5 kilometres along the top of White Ridge. The limestone is underlain by basaltic flows of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by J.W. McCammon, 1973, p. 12 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 17-1968
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50, pp. 14,15
EMPR PFD 673294
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