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MINFILE No  103H 001
File Created: 28-Aug-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  30-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI
Name WEEWANIE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H067
Status Showing NTS Map 103H10W
Latitude 053º 41' 34'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 47' 31'' Northing 5949361
Easting 513738
Commodities Hotspring Deposit Types T02 : Geothermal spring
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Undivided Metamorphic Assembl., Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by a northwest trending belt of biotite and banded gneiss along the southwest flank of the Foch Antiform, the core of which is granodiorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex.

The hotspring issues at 60 litres per minute and 47.5 degrees Celsius.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A
GSC P 70-41
GSC SUM RPT 1921A,Fig. 6
McDonald, J., (1978): *Hotsprings of Western Canada, A Complete Guide; Labrador Tea Company, Vancouver, pp. 114,115
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