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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Jul-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name SANDELL BAY, FALSE INLET, RIVERS INLET Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 092M063
Status Prospect NTS Map 092M12E
Latitude 051º 39' 17'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 32' 23'' Northing 5723646
Easting 601016
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A 76 to 90-metre wide band of limestone outcrops on Lot 1275 on the east side of Sandell Bay, 25 kilometres up Rivers Inlet. The limestone is bounded to the west by schist and to the east by diabase, within a granitic roof pendant of the Tertiary-Jurassic Coast Plutonic Complex. The band strikes 155 degrees for at least 460 metres.

The carbonate mass is composed of medium-grained, light bluish grey and white, thinly bedded to massive, high calcium limestone containing a trace of disseminated pyrite and a few lenticular beds of siliceous limestone. Two chip samples taken in succession across the east half and west half of the deposit averaged 54.59 per cent CaO, 0.43 per cent MgO, 0.71 per cent SiO2, 0.14 per cent Al2O3, 0.24 per cent Fe2O3 and nil sulphur (Canada Bureau of Mines Report 811, page 175, Samples 28, 28A).

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1992-18, p. 57
GSC MAP 92A; 1386A
GSC P 1968-1A, pp. 37-40
GSC SUM RPT 1908, pp. 38-40
CANMET RPT 811, Part 5, pp. 167,175

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