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File Created: 22-Apr-1986 by Gary R. Foye (GRF)
Last Edit:  27-Jan-1989 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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NMI
Name EUCOTT HOT SPRINGS Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 093D044
Status Showing NTS Map 093D06W
Latitude 052º 27' 10'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 18' 30'' Northing 5812745
Easting 614954
Commodities Hotspring Deposit Types T02 : Geothermal spring
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Undivided Metamorphic Assembl.
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 include the (?)Cretaceous Gambier Group and Tertiary Bella Bella Formation volcanic rocks.

The Eucott hot springs contains a very low amount of dissolved solids (145 milligrams per litre) which has a calcium sulphate, calcium bicarbonate composition. Water temperature at the surface is in excess of 60 degrees celsius. The rocks underlying the area comprise a foliated quartz diorite into which a post kinematic granodioritic stock has been intruded.

Bibliography
EM FIELDWORK 2002, pp. 65-75
GSC MAP 1324A; 1327A
GSC MEM 372, p. 99
GSC SUM RPT 1921, part A, p. 41A

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