On the west coast of Banks Island, south of Grief Point, garnet occurs in Permian (?) and/or older metasediments which are comprised mainly of laminated micaceous quartzite, crystalline limestone, skarn and schist. The garnet-biotite-quartz schists host garnets which range up to 2.5 centimetres in length and are strongly flattened parallel to the schistosity (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 70-41).