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MINFILE No  103H 003
File Created: 28-Aug-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name GARDNER CANAL, SHEARWATER POINT Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H048
Status Showing NTS Map 103H07E
Latitude 053º 26' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 33' 06'' Northing 5922394
Easting 529774
Commodities Hotspring Deposit Types T02 : Geothermal spring
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Undivided Metamorphic Assembl.
Capsule Geology

The hotspring issues at 484 litres per minute from a crevice about 5 centimetres wide and several metres long in Paleozoic chlor- itic schist. It is well over 45 degrees Celsius and consists of the following, in parts per million: Cl-60, Na-259, SO4-546, Mg-5, Ca-67, K-29, HCO3-167, SiO2-90. Total dissolved solids are 1228 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. 41,46,47,Fig. 6
CANMET RPT 669, pp. 26-28
McDonald, J., (1978): *Hotsprings of Western Canada, A Complete Guide; Labrador Tea Company, Vancouver, pp. 116,117
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