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MINFILE No  103G 011
File Created: 25-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  27-Feb-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI
Name PORCHER ISLAND Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103G098
Status Showing NTS Map 103G16W
Latitude 053º 59' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 28' 06'' Northing 5983871
Easting 403741
Commodities Clay Deposit Types B06 : Fireclay
E07 : Sedimentary kaolin
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by Lower Mesozoic greenstone to the east and quartz diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex to the west.

A large deposit of glacial clay is located on Porcher Island (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 47, page 63).

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Clay and Shale Occurrences in BC (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 23-1970
GSC MEM 47, p. 63
GSC P 70-41
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