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File Created: 04-Jun-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  15-Feb-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI 103F9 Bnt1
Name BLACKWATER CREEK Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103F059
Status Showing NTS Map 103F09W
Latitude 053º 34' 29'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 132º 22' 16'' Northing 5939239
Easting 674171
Commodities Bentonite Deposit Types E06 : Bentonite
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The showing is located at an elevation of 152 metres on the north side of Blackwater Creek, 6.4 kilometres southwest of Juskatla.

A quarry was opened to obtain material for road construction but the material proved unsatisfactory for that purpose.

The area is underlain by a series of sub-aerial basaltic and andesitic flows with minor felsic flows and pyroclastics of the Upper Oligocene to Lower Pliocene of the Masset Formation, which form a plateau volcanic sequence up to 5 kilometres thick dipping gently to the northwest.

Bentonite occurs with rhyolite of the Tartu Facies (Bulletin 54).

The area was staked in 1986 by City Resources as the Linda claims, and prospected in 1987. No economic mineralization or significant assays were reported (Assessment Report 17083).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 17083
EMPR BULL *54, p. 176
EMPR FIELDWORK 1997, 19-1-19-14
GSC MAP 1385A; 6-1990
GSC P 86-20; 88-1E, pp. 221-227, 269-274; 89-1H, pp. 73-79; 90-10 pp. 305-324

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