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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Jul-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name UCHUCKLESIT INLET Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F005
Status Showing NTS Map 092F03E
Latitude 049º 01' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 01' 04'' Northing 5432659
Easting 352505
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

At the Uchucklesit Inlet occurrence, a limestone band of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Quatsino Formation extends northward from the northwest shore of Uchucklesit Inlet for 5 kilometres to the southeast shore of Henderson Lake, 30 kilometres southwest of Port Alberni. The band is segmented by several west-northwest trending cross faults. The unit is underlain by volcanics of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation and overlain by volcanics and sediments of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by J.W. McCammon, 1973, p. 10 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 17-1968
GSC OF 463
GSC P 68-50, pp. 14,15
EMPR PFD 700045

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