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MINFILE No  103H 007
File Created: 28-Aug-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name KLEKANE INLET Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H027
Status Showing NTS Map 103H02E
Latitude 053º 14' 49'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 41' 06'' Northing 5899788
Easting 521019
Commodities Hotspring Deposit Types T02 : Geothermal spring
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The hot spring issues at 264 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-4600, Na-2523, SiO2-38, SO4-717, Mg-179, Ca-385, K-82, HCO3-58, FeO+Al2O3-58. Total dissolved solids are 8640 parts per million. Contamination of the meteoric water by sea water is likely.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1929-76
EMPR OF 2002-03
GSC MAP *23-1970; 1385A
GSC P 70-41, pp. 54,55; 73-18, pp. 231,233
GSC SUM RPT *1921A, pp. 41,43,44,Fig. 6
CANMET RPT 669, pp. 26-28
McDonald, J.,(1978): Hotsprings of Western Canada, A Complete Guide; Labrador Tea Company, Vancouver, p. 122,123
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