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File Created: 28-Jul-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name COLBY BAY LIMESTONE, BANKS ISLAND Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103G059
Status Showing NTS Map 103G09W
Latitude 053º 34' 26'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 15' 39'' Northing 5936853
Easting 416513
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

A band of white intermixed high calcium limestone and dolomite at least 270 metres wide outcrops on the northeast shore of Banks Island, 8 kilometres northwest of Colby Bay, and continues inland for some distance. The band and associated chert and siltstone lie in an 8 kilometre long, northwest trending metasedimentary wedge enclosed in diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The limestone bed strikes 120 degrees and dips steeply southwest. The rock is relatively free of dykes. Much of the dolomite was found to be siliceous.

Various other occurrences of white and rose coloured limestone, sometimes containing wavy lenses of diorite, are reported in this wedge of metasediments.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 23873, 25494
EMPR OF 2004-2
GSC MAP 23-70; 278A
GSC P 70-41, p. 22
CANMET RPT 811, Part 5, p. 173

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