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MINFILE No  103H 005
File Created: 28-Aug-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name BISHOP BAY Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H046
Status Showing NTS Map 103H07W
Latitude 053º 28' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 50' 06'' Northing 5925094
Easting 510951
Commodities Hotspring Deposit Types T02 : Geothermal spring
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The hot spring issues at 60 litres per minute from a crevice in granodiorite of the Late Cretaceous Butedale Pluton. It is over 45 degrees Celsius and consists of the following, in parts per million: Cl-32, Na-92, SO4-179, Ca-18, HCO3-4, CO3-7, SiO2-62. Total dissolved solids are 402 parts per million.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1929-76
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A
GSC P 70-41, pp. 54,55; 73-18, pp. 231,232
GSC SUM RPT 1921A, pp. 41,45,46,Fig. 6
CANMET RPT 669, pp. 26-28
McDonald, J.,(1978): *Hotsprings of Western Canada, A Complete Guide; Labrador Tea Company, Vancouver, pp. 120,121
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