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File Created: 15-Aug-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  23-Sep-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name BB, VITAL CREEK Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093N073
Status Showing NTS Map 093N11W
Latitude 055º 43' 06'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 28' 18'' Northing 6177499
Easting 344746
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

Limestone is exposed in the vicinity of the BB group of claims on Silver Creek, just north of its confluence with Vital Creek, 160 kilometres northwest of Fort St. James (see 093N 014).

The deposit lies within a 200 kilometre long, northwest-trending belt of massive Permian-Pennsylvanian limestone with minor chert and argillite assigned to the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex. The limestone is bound to the east by the north-northwest striking Pinchi fault zone and overlain to the west by a sequence of chert, argillite, quartzite and greenstone (andesite) also assigned to the Cache Creek Complex. Locally, the belt is up to 760 metres in width.

The limestone is variably dolomitized along the Pinchi fault zone due to hydrothermal alteration. A sample of blue-grey limestone outcropping on the BB claims analysed 55.46 per cent CaO, 0.27 per cent MgO, 0.11 per cent SiO2, 0.20 per cent Fe2O3+Al2O3 and 0.41 per cent insolubles (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 252, page 36, sample 14).

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (*McCammon, J.W. (1973): Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia, p. 25 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 844A; 907A; 971A; 1424A
GSC MEM 252, pp. 32-36
GSC P 74-1A; 74-1B, pp. 31-42
EMPR PFD 674118, 674119

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