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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Jul-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name OWIKENO LAKE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 092M066
Status Showing NTS Map 092M10W
Latitude 051º 39' 27'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 49' 49'' Northing 5725175
Easting 650078
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A deposit of white, coarse-grained limestone within granitic rocks of the Tertiary-Jurassic Coast Plutonic Complex outcrops on the south shore of Owikeno Lake, 0.8 kilometres east of the fish hatchery and continues southwesterly up the mountain side. The limestone is cut by a few mafic dykes an contains some brown mica. A second large deposit of high calcium limestone is reported to occur 3.2 kilometres east of here.

Bibliography
CANMET RPT 811, Part 5, p. 167
GSC P 1968-1A, pp. 37-40
GSC MAP 1386A
Falconbridge File
EMPR PFD 650218

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