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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Feb-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name MOUNT MURRAY, PINE PASS Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 093O047
Status Showing NTS Map 093O07W
Latitude 055º 27' 36'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 45' 07'' Northing 6146010
Easting 515686
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

Limestone of the Upper Cambrian Lynx Formation is exposed along the John Hart Highway, 3.8 kilometres southeast of Garbit Station of the B.C. Railway. The limestone lies on the east side of a northwest trending anticline.

The roadcut exposes dark grey to black limestone in thin crinkled beds with some scattered 0.15 to 0.6 metre thick layers of light grey dolomite. A sample taken across 15 metres of limestone, perpendicular, to the bedding contained 25.70 per cent CaO, 5.56 per cent MgO, 38.56 per cent insolubles, 2.90 per cent R2O3, 2.03 per cent Fe2O3, 0.04 per cent MnO, 0.12 per cent P2O5, 0.12 per cent sulphur, 27.29 per cent ignition loss and 0.22 per cent water (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1957, page 86). The dolomite bands were excluded from sampling.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1957-86
GSC MAP 11-1961
GSC OF 925
Placer Dome File

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