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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Apr-1988 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name ISKUT RIVER Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G009
Status Showing NTS Map 104G01W, 104G02E, 104G07E, 104G08W
Latitude 057º 03' 21'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 23' 37'' Northing 6324464
Easting 415471
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Narrow north trending units of Upper Triassic limestone occur to the west of the Iskut River and north and southeast of Hankin Peak. This unit, made up of discontinuous beds and lenses of limestone, is widespread in the Telegraph Creek and adjacent map areas. Souther (GSC Paper 71-44) describes this unit as a "thin-bedded, flaggy, fetid limestone with much interbedded shale and siliceous silt. Locally it is thick-bedded or massive." The unit may range from less than a metre to more than 100 metres in thickness. The massive facies is fossiliferous containing a reefoid fauna of mainly corals and bryozoa.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia by McCammon, J.W. 1973, p. 34 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 9-1957; 11-1971; 1418A
GSC P *71-44, p. 8

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