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File Created: 01-Sep-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name NAHLIN RIVER LIMESTONE Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104J081
Status Showing NTS Map 104J13W
Latitude 058º 48' 20'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 51' 28'' Northing 6521924
Easting 334921
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

A fault bounded upper Mississippian-Permian limestone unit of the Horsefeed Formation (Cache Creek Complex) extends northwestward from Opal Lake for 12.5 kilometres to Chastot Creek, just east of Nahlin River, about 106 kilometres north of the community of Telegraph Creek.

The limestone unit widens northwestward from 300 to 2300 metres. A narrow, 6 kilometre long mass of chert of the Mississippian-Triassic Kedahda Formation (Cache Creek Complex) lies infaulted within the limestone near its southwest margin. The limestone is also in contact with upper Mississippian-Permian Cache Creek Complex ultramafic rocks to the southwest and altered basaltic flows and pyroclastic rocks of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Nakina Formation to the northeast.

The limestone band generally consists of pale grey weathering, pale to medium grey, massive, unsorted limestone breccia containing angular fragments up to 5 centimetres in length. The fragments are comprised of various carbonates including pale brownish grey, porcelaneous, very fine grained limestone, fusiliferous, calcarenitic limestone and fine grained black limestone. The limestone is in places recrystallized and heavily veined with calcite.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (McCammon, J.W. (1973): Limestone Occurrences in B.C., p. 35)
EMPR PF (104J General File - Claim maps 73M, 73 M-2, Dec. 1970)
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC OF 707
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 21-1962; 15-1968; 1418A; 1712A; 1713A
GSC SUM RPT 1925, Part A, pp. 33A-99A
GSC P *74-47, pp. 13-14, Figure 9
Placer Dome File

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