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MINFILE No  092K 001
File Created: 17-May-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  19-May-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name TOBA INLET Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092K049
Status Showing NTS Map 092K08W
Latitude 050º 28' 09'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 22' 31'' Northing 5591700
Easting 402402
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier
Capsule Geology

A large deposit of fine-grained, siliceous blue limestone is reported to be exposed on both sides of Chusan Creek, which enters the east side of Toba Inlet near its head (Bureau of Mines Report No. 811). The area is underlain by Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group rocks including greenstone, argillite, conglomerate, limestone and schist (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 480).

Bibliography
CANMET RPT *811, p. 160
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 23, p. 146
GSC OF 463; 480
GSC P 70-1A, pp. 44-49; 71-1A, pp. 31-33; 72-1A, pp. 21-23; 73-1A, pp. 42,43
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