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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-May-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name CALEDONIA, GOLDEN ZONE Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092G056
Status Showing NTS Map 092G10W
Latitude 049º 35' 26'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 57' 02'' Northing 5493110
Easting 503574
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Copper mineralization is exposed on Caledonian Creek, 650 metres north of the confluence with the Indian River, 19 kilometres southeast of Squamish.

A trench, on the east bank of Caledonian Creek, exposes pyrite and chalcopyrite(?). The mineralization is hosted in volcanics and sediments of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group, near the south end of the Indian River roof pendant.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1917-278
EMPR PF (Claim Sheet Map - Indian River Area)
GSC MAP 199A; 1069A: 1151A; 1386A
GSC MEM 335, pp. 47-54,58,61,62
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195; 90-1F, pp. 95-101
Armstrong, J.E. (1990): Vancouver Geology, Geological Association of Canada (Cordilleran Section)
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 7985, 7986

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