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MINFILE No  092K 134
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  16-May-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name READ ISLAND Mining Division Nanaimo, Vancouver
BCGS Map 092K025
Status Showing NTS Map 092K03E
Latitude 050º 13' 13'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 04' 34'' Northing 5565185
Easting 351898
Commodities Clay Deposit Types B06 : Fireclay
E07 : Sedimentary kaolin
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Blue compact clays suitable for the manufacture of brick and tile occur near the shores of some of the bays on Read Island. The Island is underlain by quartz diorite, granodiorite and diorite of the Juro-Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 23; 40
EMPR *IND MIN FILE (Clay and Shale Occurrences in BC (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 120A; 1386A
GSC MEM 23, 146pp.
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
Anderson, D. (1985): Evergreen Islands, Whitecap books Ltd., p. 109
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