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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Jul-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name SUMALLO RIVER Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H025
Status Showing NTS Map 092H03E
Latitude 049º 13' 10'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 05' 36'' Northing 5453600
Easting 638841
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

A 213 metre thick bed of massive, bluish grey and white limestone of the Permian to Jurassic Hozameen Complex follows the Sumallo River for 3 kilometres northwestward from its confluence with the Skagit River to Highway 3. The unit is underlain by impure limestone, argillite and breccia and overlain by interbedded quartzite and argillite.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE ("Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia" by McCammon, J.W. 1973, p. 13 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 12-1969; 737A
GSC OF 980
GSC P 69-47, p. 4
GSC SUM RPT *1911, p. 118

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