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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  18-Oct-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI 104B13 Asb1
Name EAGLE CRAG Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B092
Status Showing NTS Map 104B13E
Latitude 056º 54' 23'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 41' 31'' Northing 6310193
Easting 336084
Commodities Asbestos Deposit Types M06 : Ultramafic-hosted asbestos
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Near the contact of the Permian to Carboniferous metamorphics and the Coast Plutonic Complex, just south of Eagle Crag, is an occurrence of amphibole asbestos. Also noted, along the hornblende granodiorite contact, on the ridge south of Eagle Crag, are heavy impregnations of pyrite and arsenopyrite (Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 246, page 78).

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1995-25
GSC MAP 9-1957; 311A; 1418A
GSC MEM 246, p. 78
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
EMPR PFD 671574

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