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File Created: 21-Nov-1988 by Gary V. White (GVW)
Last Edit:  29-Jan-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name WORMY LAKE, SECHELT Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092G051
Status Prospect NTS Map 092G12W
Latitude 049º 31' 52'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 50' 12'' Northing 5486836
Easting 439458
Commodities Wollastonite Deposit Types K09 : Wollastonite skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Wormy Lake occurrence is located on the Sechelt Peninsula, 3.5 kilometres northwest of Snake Bay. The deposit is situated approximately 2 kilometres northwest of the Snake Bay occurrence (092GNW052).

The occurrence is hosted in a roof pendant of calcareous meta- sediments, possibly of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group (Quatsino or Karmutsen formations). The pendant occurs in diorite of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex (Late Jurassic in this area). Bedding in the metasediments, near the southeast end of Wormy Lake, strikes west to northwest and dips 30 to 81 degrees north.

In the vicinity of Wormy Lake, the roof pendant consists mainly of banded white, green, grey to brownish black skarn comprised of garnet, diopside, epidote with minor pyrite and chalcopyrite. Black or brown, fine-grained garnetite and light to dark grey, thinly laminated to massive limestone occur to a lesser extent. Wollaston- ite is contained primarily in the banded skarn. Only minor amounts of wollastonite are contained in the limestone and garnetite. The wollastonite outcrops intermittently over a distance of 600 metres.

Bibliography
EM EXPL 2002-29-40
EMPR FIELDWORK *1988, pp. 489-493
EMPR OF *1991-17
EMPR PF (Preliminary Metallurgical Investigation of Garnet Ore, prepared for Tri-Sil Minerals Inc., by Bacon, Donaldson & Associates Ltd., Oct. 11, 1988 (in 092GNW052 - Mineral Hill))
GSC MAP 42-1963; 1069A; 1386A
GSC OF 611
GSC P 69-25
GCNL #38, 1989
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia

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