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File Created: 29-Jun-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  07-Mar-1990 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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NMI
Name PALMER STATION, PARSONS BRIDGE Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B043
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092B06W
Latitude 048º 27' 32'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 26' 52'' Northing 5367403
Easting 466895
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Palmer Station occurrence is located on the south side of Highway 1A, just northeast of the head of Esquimalt Harbour. A small lens of fine-grained, bluish grey, high calcium limestone hosted in the Mesozoic and/or Paleozoic Wark Gneiss was quarried during 1910 and 1911. Production figures for this occurrence are not available.

Bibliography
EMPR P 1993-23
GSC MAP 70A; 1553A
GSC MEM 36, p. 135
GSC OF 463
CANMET RPT *811, Part 5, p. 132
GAC FIELD TRIP Guidebook, Trip #7 - Muller, J.E. (1977): Geology of Vancouver Island
EMPR PFD 5621, 5622, 5623, 5624, 5625, 5626, 5627, 5628, 5629

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