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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Apr-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name BOLD POINT Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092K015
Status Showing NTS Map 092K03E
Latitude 050º 10' 33'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 10' 25'' Northing 5560442
Easting 344799
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

Two or more bodies of bluish grey limestone form a 300 metre long, 60 metre wide northeast trending belt in granitic rocks of the Tertiary-Cretaceous Coastal Plutonic Complex on Lot 4, 1.6 kilometres north of Bold Point on the east side of Quadra Island. A composite of six chip samples taken from various parts of the limestone belt analyzed as follows: 53.35 per cent CaO, 0.72 per cent MgO, 4.60 per cent insolubles, 0.59 per cent R2O3, 0.10 per cent Fe2O3, 0.01 per cent MnO, 0.03 per cent P2O5, 0.02 oper cent sulphur and 40.23 per cent ignition loss (Bulletin 40, pages 93, 94)

A few tonnes of limestone are reported to have been quarried from here before 1925.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 23, pp. 101,102; *40, p. 93
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. 21-23,41-44; 73-1A, pp. 42,43
CANMET RPT 811, Part 5, p. 161

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