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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  26-Mar-2009 by Gloria Robinson (GLR)

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Name INDATA LAKE, LIMESTONE RIDGE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093N024
Status Showing NTS Map 093N06W
Latitude 055º 17' 34'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 16' 00'' Northing 6129713
Easting 356076
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

A mass of limestone outcrops just west of the south end of Indata Lake on Limestone Ridge, 120 kilometres northwest of Fort St. James.

The deposit lies within a 200 kilometre long, northwest-trending belt of massive Permian-Pennsylvanian limestone with minor chert and argillite of the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex. The belt is approximately 6 kilometres wide in the vicinity of Indata Lake. To the east the limestone is separated from Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic Takla Group andesitic to basaltic volcanics by the Pinchi fault zone. Overlying chert, argillite and greenstone (andesite) of the Cache Creek Complex outcrop to the west.

The limestone is variably dolomitized along the Pinchi fault zone due to hydrothermal alteration. A sample of buff-coloured limestone exposed on the east shore of Indata Lake at its south end analysed 51.32 per cent CaO, 1.38 per cent MgO, 3.07 per cent SiO2, 1.56 per cent Fe2O3+Al2O3 and 3.21 per cent insolubles (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 252, page 36, Sample 7). A second sample of blue-grey limestone on Limestone Ridge, west of the south end of Indata Lake, analysed 55.14 per cent CaO, 0.07 per cent MgO, 0.22 per cent SiO2, 0.14 per cent Fe2O3+Al2O3 and 0.55 per cent insolubles (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 212, page 36, Sample 8).

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (*McCammon, J.W. (1973): Limestone Occurrences in
British Columbia, p. 25 (in Ministry Library)
EMPR PF Placer Dome (Unknown (1988): Assay worksheet and notes, Equity Silver; Placer Dome (1988): Diamond Drill Logs, DD 87-I-01 to 87-I-06 - Indata; Chemex Labs (1988): Certificate of Analysis - A8813754 - Limestone Properties)
GSC MAP 844A; 907A; 971A; 1424A
GSC MEM 252, pp. 32-36
GSC OF 3071
GSC P 42-7; 42-11; 45-6

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