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File Created: 06-Sep-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name LAWRENCE LIMESTONE Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 114P058
Status Showing NTS Map 114P09W, 114P10E
Latitude 059º 35' 18'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 136º 30' 07'' Northing 6606525
Easting 415191
Commodities Marble, Limestone, Dimension Stone, Building Stone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The Lawrence showing is located near Mineral Mountain and Rainy Hollow at the headwaters of Klehini River.

A belt of metamorphic rocks forms the northwest trending extension of a larger mass of undifferentiated metamorphic rocks located largely in Alaska, within Tertiary to Cretaceous granodiorite and diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The belt extends northward into British Columbia for 20 kilometres and varies up to 6 kilometres in width. In the area of the showing, the belt consists of marble, argillite, quartzite, gneiss and schist.

The marble, which forms conspicuous bare knolls, is medium to coarse grained and light grey to white in colour. The marble occurs as beds up to 150 metres thick and as lenses and irregular masses. Garnet or epidote-quartz skarn alteration is developed locally along the margins of some of the marble bodies. A grab sample contained 54.8 per cent CaO, 0.24 per cent MgO and 0.56 per cent insolubles (Bulletin 25, p. 20).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL *25, pp. 20-21
EMPR IND MIN FILE (McCammon, J.W., 1973, Limestone Occurences in B.C. p. 37 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 1418A
GSC OF 926, 2191

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