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File Created: 03-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  23-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI
Name DIGBY ISLAND Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103J038
Status Showing NTS Map 103J08W
Latitude 054º 18' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 27' 06'' Northing 6018769
Easting 405551
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

A north trending zone about 1 kilometre long, of well-bedded brown-weathering, dolomitic limestone underlies the eastern shore of a small inlet 0.8 kilometres northeast of Straith Point on Digby Island. The limestone lies within Paleozoic to Mesozoic phyllitic schists.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A
GSC MEM 394, p. 42
GSC P 66-33

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