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File Created: 01-Aug-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  28-Jul-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name BANKS ISLAND (L.797), GALE POINT Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H021
Status Showing NTS Map 103H05W
Latitude 053º 15' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 48' 15'' Northing 5901588
Easting 446358
Commodities Limestone, Dolomite Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

A 180 metre wide band of white, coarse-grained limestone and dolomite outcrops on Lot 797 on the east coast of Banks Island, 2.5 kilometres south of Gale Point. The bed is contained in a roof pendant of gneissic diorite and migmatite within granodiorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The deposit strikes 125 degrees and dips steeply northeast to vertical. Numerous inclusions of country rock are present along the northeast edge of the band. Sinuous quartzite fragments are sometimes found floating in the limestone. The dolo- mite commonly contains veins of white quartz.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 23-1970; 278A; 1385A
GSC P 70-41, p. 20
CANMET RPT 452, Vol. 5, p. 172; *811, Part 5, 1944, pp. 171-173

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