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MINFILE No  092K 003
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-May-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name PRYCE CHANNEL Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092K036
Status Showing NTS Map 092K07W
Latitude 050º 19' 01'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 51' 58'' Northing 5575536
Easting 367147
Commodities Marble, Dimension Stone, Building Stone Deposit Types R04 : Dimension stone - marble
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Marble is exposed in the bed of a stream which enters Pryce Channel, about 1.2 kilometres west of Elizabeth Island (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 23). The area is underlain by diorite of the Mesozoic to Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 480).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 23, p. 100; 40, p. 93
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM *23, pp. 66,67
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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