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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Jan-1989 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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NMI
Name LAGOON BAY Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 093D001
Status Showing NTS Map 093D04W
Latitude 052º 03' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 52' 48'' Northing 5769014
Easting 576774
Commodities Perlite Deposit Types R12 : Volcanic glass - perlite
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Alexander
Capsule Geology

The region is underlain by the Coast Plutonic Complex, consist- ing of pre- to post-kinematic quartz diorite to granodiorite batho- liths intruded into Paleozoic to Mesozoic metasedimentary and meta- volcanic rocks. Younger supracrustal assemblages overlying deformed rocks include the (?)Cretaceous Gambier Group and Tertiary Bella Bella Formation volcanic rocks.

The Lagoon Bay perlite showing occurs in an area mapped as dominantly foliated granodiorite and paragneiss. On the west side of Fisher Channel, west of the showing, is an area underlain by andesitic volcanic rocks of the Bella Bella Formation. While no volcanic rocks have been mapped in the area of the showing, it is likely that Bella Bella volcanics have been deposited here and that the perlite is derived from these rocks.

Bibliography
EM FIELDWORK 2002, pp. 65-75
EMPR AR 1961-A67
GSC MAP 1327A; 1424A
GSC MEM 372, p. 106

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