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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Feb-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name SILVER SANDS, PINE PASS Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 093O058
Status Showing NTS Map 093O10E
Latitude 055º 31' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 32' 05'' Northing 6152819
Easting 529376
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

Black, siliceous limestone of the Triassic Toad, Grayling and Liard formations outcrops in a small roadcut along the John Hart Highway (Highway 97), 2.1 kilometres northeast of the Pine River bridge on the west limb of a northwest trending anticline. A chip sample taken across 30.5 metres contained 18.1 per cent CaO, 8.30 per cent MgO, 48.8 per cent insolubles, 0.64 per cent R2O3, 0.63 per cent Fe2O3, 0.03 per cent MnO, 0.06 per cent sulphur and 0.27 per cent ignition loss (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1957, page 86).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1957-86
EMPR FIELDWORK 1991, pp. 433-440
GSC MAP 11-1961
GSC OF 925
Placer Dome File

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