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MINFILE No  103J 002
File Created: 02-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  22-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI
Name WALES ISLAND Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103J078
Status Showing NTS Map 103J10E
Latitude 054º 42' 49'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 33' 16'' Northing 6064032
Easting 399862
Commodities Limestone, Marble, Building Stone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Undivided Metamorphic Assembl.
Capsule Geology

Tightly folded marble zones, up to 10 metres thick, interlayered with hornblende gneiss occur within the Paleozoic Central Gneiss Complex. The zone is traced intermittently for 8 kilometres in a northwest trend along the southwest part of Wales Island.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by McCammon, J.W. 1973, p. 33 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A
GSC MEM 394, p. 14
GSC P 66-33
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