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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-May-2023 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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Name GRAND CANYON Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093H092
Status Showing NTS Map 093H13E
Latitude 053º 56' 24'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 38' 47'' Northing 5977695
Easting 588854
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Cariboo, Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Grand Canyon limestone showing is located approximately 72 kilometres east of the town of Prince George on the western bank of the Fraser River, in the Cariboo Mining Division.

The Grand Canyon limestone showing occurs within the lower Cambrian Gog Group. The Gog Group is an assemblage of shale, sandstone and limestone exposed in the incision of the Fraser River. The occurrence comprises a broad band of mixed limestone which crops out on both sides of the Fraser River.

In 2015, Preem Industrial Inc. completed a small outcrop sampling program targeting a marble unit for quarriable carving stone, approximately 9.5 kilometres to the west of the Grand Canyon showing. The two samples submitted for testing yielded values of 94.44 per cent and 94.81 per cent calcium carbonate, which is under the 95 per cent threshold value for high-grade limestone (Assessment Report 35674).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *35674
EMPR IND MIN FILE (McCammon, J.W. 1973 Limestone Occurrences in B.C. p.24 (in Ministry Library))
EMPR PF (Jones, W.C., 1962, Grand Canyon Damsite)
GSC MAP 1356A, 1424A
GSC P 72-35, p. 51
EMPR PFD 14938, 681142

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