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MINFILE No  092K 120
File Created: 13-May-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name SQUIRREL COVE Mining Division Nanaimo, Vancouver
BCGS Map 092K016
Status Showing NTS Map 092K02W
Latitude 050º 07' 58'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 55' 56'' Northing 5555181
Easting 361910
Commodities Granite, Dimension Stone, Building Stone Deposit Types R03 : Dimension stone - granite
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A "pink granite" is reported to occur on the southern shore of Squirrel Cove, on the east side of Coretz Island (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 23, page 143). The area is underlain by quartz diorite of the Late Jurassic to Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 480).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 23; 40
GSC MAP 120A; 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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