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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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NMI
Name KWANIKA CREEK LIMESTONE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093N044
Status Showing NTS Map 093N06E, 093N11E
Latitude 055º 29' 47'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 21' 21'' Northing 6152553
Easting 351182
Commodities Limestone, Dolomite Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

A deposit of limestone outcrops predominantly to the west of Kwanika Creek, just northeast of Tsayta Lake, 135 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 3.8 kilometres wide along the west side of Kwanika Creek. 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 massive, buff- coloured limestone exposed near the Pinchi fault on the lower part of Kwanika Creek analysed 34.03 per cent CaO, 17.97 per cent MgO, 0.38 per cent insolubles and 1.59 per cent Fe203+Al2O3 (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 252, page 36, Sample 5). A second sample of limestone from a ridge west of Kwanika Creek analysed 55.41 per cent CaO, 0.31 per cent MgO, 0.07 per cent insolubles and 0.15 per cent Fe2O3+Al2O3 (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 252, page 36, Sample 6).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 87-107
EMPR IND MIN FILE (*McCammon, J.W. (1973): Limestone Occurrences in
British Columbia, p. 25 (in Ministry Library))
EMPR OF 2000-19
EMPR PF Placer Dome (G.R. Webber (1973): Burn Project Geochemical Sampling, Report of Examination)
GSC MAP 844A; 907A; 971A; 1424A
GSC MEM 252, pp. 32-36
GSC OF 3071
GSC P 74-1A; 74-1B, pp. 31-42
EMPR PFD 860575

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