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File Created: 15-Mar-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  20-Mar-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name JEANE, HIGHWAY 33 BASALT Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E075
Status Showing NTS Map 082E11E
Latitude 049º 44' 06'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 07' 12'' Northing 5511324
Easting 347238
Commodities Aggregate, Flagstone, Dimension Stone Deposit Types R : INDUSTRIAL ROCKS
R05 : Dimension stone - andesite
R08 : Flagstone
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Monashee, Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Highway 33 basalt property is located on Kallis Creek, approximately 29 kilometres south east of Kelowna. In 2006, the property was explored for basalt to use in landscaping and as aggregate.

The area is underlain by granitic rocks of the Cretaceous Okanagan Batholith to the west and sheared equivalents of this and Monashee gneiss to the east.

Locally, there is a 500- metre- wide north- trending band of flat- lying basalt flows and columnar basalt, of Miocene age. The total thicknesses of the basalt flows could exceed 50 metres (Assessment Report 28864).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 28864

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