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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Sep-2021 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name BENNETT LAKE, ROHAN Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104M096
Status Showing NTS Map 104M15W
Latitude 059º 57' 08'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 134º 57' 39'' Northing 6646091
Easting 502188
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
R04 : Dimension stone - marble
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Nisling
Capsule Geology

Limestone outcrops in several locations on Bennett Range, 0.5 to 2.5 kilometres northwest of Bennett Lake.

The limestone occurs within the Boundary Ranges Metamorphic Suite, a Devonian to Middle Triassic succession of greenschist metamorphosed siltstones, wackes, basalts and pyroclastics. The sequence is contained within a northwest-trending belt up to 4 kilometres wide. The belt is intruded to the west by Late - and Middle Cretaceous granite and granodiorite of the Late Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. A stock of the Late Triassic Stikine Plutonic Suite consisting of monzodioritic to gabbroic intrusive rocks intrudes to the immediate east of the occurrence. The strata have been warped into a gently plunging, tight to open syncline-anticline pair.

Exploration by Eagle Plains Resources in 2011 comprises an airborne EM and Magnetic geophysical survey on their Rohan property. The 204 line-kilometre survey was completed along idealized 100 metre spaced flight-lines, at a nominal terrain clearance of 30 to 40 metres. The 2011 airborne geophysical survey highlights numerous strong EM anomalies including at least two kilometre-scale ovoid anomalies, plus several linear anomalies associated with regional lithologic contacts.

In 2014, Rosedale Resources took 6 soil- and 2 rock samples along an east-flowing creek approximately 500 metres north to approximately 1 kilometre northeast of the Bennett Lake showing (104M 032). All samples yielded low values.

For a quick visual summary of work completed in the Rohan and Bennett Lake showings area from 2011 to 2014, refer to Figure 5, Assessment Report 34548 (2013); Figure 4, Assessment Report 35099 (2014); and Figure 5 of Assessment Report 39015 (2019 compilation map of all previous work).

See Rohan (104M 111) for related geological and work history details.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 32488, 34548, 35099
EMPR BULL 105
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 217-231; 1990, pp. 139-144, 153-159
EMPR IND MIN FILE (McCammon, J.W., 1973, Limestone Occurrences in B.C. p. 36 (in Ministry Library))
EMPR PFD 880701
EMPR OF *1988-5
EMPR PF (In 104M General File - Claim map of 104M, 1970)
EMPR RGS 37, 1993
GSC MAP 19-1957; 94A; 711; 1418A; 1426
GSC MEM 37
GSC OF 427, 2225 p. 42
GSC P 69-01A pp. 23-27, 78-01A pp. 69-70, 91-01A pp. 147-153, 92-01A
GSC SUM RPT 1906 pp. 26-32; 1911 pp. 27-58
EMPR PFD 880701

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