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MINFILE No  103J 033
File Created: 03-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  03-Mar-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name CLAXTON Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103J010
Status Showing NTS Map 103J01E
Latitude 054º 05' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 05' 06'' Northing 5994234
Easting 429036
Commodities Dolomite Deposit Types R10 : Dolomite
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by Permo-Triassic feldspathic schist with a north trend and 80 degrees west dip.

A large dolomitic deposit is reported to occur 300 metres from the water at Claxton, 24.0 kilometres south of Prince Rupert. A sample contained 41.9 per cent MgCO3 (Jim McCammon, Industrial Mineral File).

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Dolomite Occurrences In British Columbia by McCammon, J.W. 1980, p. 4 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A
GSC MEM 394
GSC P 66-33
EMPR PFD 801229
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