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File Created: 27-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  16-Aug-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name DARDANELLE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I049
Status Showing NTS Map 103I08E
Latitude 054º 28' 53'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 12' 15'' Northing 6037375
Easting 551562
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

A 5 kilometre long, northeast trending band of limestone outcrops on both sides of the Zymoetz River, 1 to 5 kilometres west of its confluence with Dardanelle Creek. The band is bounded to the north by Jurassic aged granite and granodiorite and overlain to the south by basaltic to rhyolitic flows, tuff and breccia of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic aged Telkwa Formation. The band is truncated to the northeast and southwest by several faults.

The deposit is comprised of a 15 to 30 metre thick bed of pure white, fossiliferous limestone that is conformably underlain by argillaceous limestone and overlain by 6 to 15 metres of impure limestone with large white fusilinids in a rose coloured matrix of carbonate and iron oxide. Eight samples of the pure limestone averaged 2.3 percent in insoluble residues, which contained mica, clay, silt and some quartz grains.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A
GSC MEM *329, pp. 15,16
GSC OF 1136

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