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File Created: 16-Aug-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name TERRACE AIRPORT Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I047
Status Showing NTS Map 103I07E
Latitude 054º 27' 55'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 41' 11'' Northing 6035336
Easting 520327
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Three small hills of Lower Permian aged limestone project above the surrounding Pleistocene sediments along a road 5 to 8 kilometres west of the Terrace Airport. The deposits are composed of medium grained, flesh grey, silicious limestone.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by J.W. McCammon, 1973, p. 31 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A
GSC MEM 329, pp. 14-17
GSC OF 1136

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