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File Created: 27-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  16-Aug-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name MT. ATTREE Mining Division Omineca, Skeena
BCGS Map 103I049
Status Showing NTS Map 103I08W
Latitude 054º 26' 03'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 19' 03'' Northing 6032043
Easting 544270
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Lower Permian aged limestone outcrops 5.6 kilometres along a northwest trending ridge just east of Mt. Attree, 19 kilometres southwest of Terrace. The bed is conformably overlain by greenstone, tuff, shale and argillaceous limestone to the north. To the south it is thrust faulted over basaltic to rhyolitic flows, tuff and breccia of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic aged Telkwa Formation. Bedding dips 45 to 67 degrees northeast to southeast.

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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