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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Oct-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI 104B12 Fe1
Name ELBOW MOUNTAIN Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B071
Status Showing NTS Map 104B12W
Latitude 056º 42' 00'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 50' 01'' Northing 6287579
Easting 326509
Commodities Magnetite, Wollastonite Deposit Types K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

On Elbow Mountain at the contact between Cretaceous to Tertiary quartz diorite intrusives and Permian to Carboniferous schists and gneisses, there is considerable magnetite noted within hornblendite. Wollastonite has been reported, particularly along carbonate-rich beds near the contact.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 9-1957; 311A; 1418A
GSC MEM 246, p. 78
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154

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