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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.2224) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H031
Status Showing NTS Map 103H05W
Latitude 053º 23' 58'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 55' 09'' Northing 5917100
Easting 438886
Commodities Limestone, Dolomite Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

A 180 metre thick steeply dipping bed of limestone striking 130 to 140 degrees outcrops on Lot 2224 on the north coast of Banks Island, 12 kilometres northwest of Keecha Point. The limestone lies within quartz diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. It contains interbeds of schist that become numerous towards the edges of the deposit.

The bed consists of erratically intermingled white high calcium limestone and dolomite. The dolomite occurs as thin beds to large lenses that become more frequent near the margins of the bed. A chip sample taken across 30 metres of high calcium limestone contained 54.56% CaO, 0.72% MgO, 0.24% SiO2, 0.18% Al2O3, 0.07% Fe2O3 and nil sulphur, while a sample across a 9 metre thick dolomite lens assayed 31.84% CaO, 20.77% MgO, 0.24% SiO2, 0.08% Al2O3, 0.23% Fe2O3 and a trace of sulphur (Canmet Report 811, p.176, Samples 34 and 34A).

Bibliography
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A
GSC P 70-41, p. 20
CANMET RPT 452, Vol.5, pp. 172,173; *811, Part 5, 1944, pp. 173,176

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