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File Created: 02-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  23-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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Name PORCHER ISLAND LIMESTONE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103J009
Status Showing NTS Map 103J01W
Latitude 054º 03' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 21' 06'' Northing 5991753
Easting 411542
Commodities Limestone, Iron, Magnetite Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain mainly by Paleozoic-Mesozoic metavolcanics consisting of chlorite amphibole schist and narrow zones of meta- sediments comprised of limestone, quartzite and argillite. The crystalline limestone, up to 3 metres thick, trends northwest for about 1 kilometre and dips 45 degrees to 60 degrees east. Magnetite in quartzite and limestone represents the northwest extension of a 4 kilometre long magnetite zone (see Star 103J 031).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 12238, 13051
EMPR EXPL 1984-378
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in BC (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 3-1965, 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A
GSC MEM 394, p. 37
GSC P 66-33
CANMET RPT #452, pp. 127,172; #811, p. 174
EMPR PFD 671671

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