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File Created: 05-Mar-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  22-May-2008 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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Name SD 8 Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E019
Status Showing NTS Map 082E01W
Latitude 049º 07' 20'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 23' 04'' Northing 5441966
Easting 398988
Commodities Uranium Deposit Types O02 : Rare element pegmatite - NYF family
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by the Upper Proterozoic Grand Forks Gneiss, a raised fault block of high grade metamorphic rocks which are part of the Monashee gneiss Complex. The rocks consist of biotite, amphibole, and pyroxene schists and gneisses, interlayered with pegmatites and leucogranite, with minor quartzites and calcareous rocks. These rocks are cut by north trending quartz monzonite dykes and stocks and dykes and small stocks of biotite-hornblende diorite and quartz diorite with minor amphibolite and pyroxenite. Regional foliation of the gneisses strikes northwest and dips 20 to 50 degrees southwest. Principal host rocks for the uranium mineralization are quartz-rich pegmatites which are interlayered with the biotite gneisses and schists. Uraninite is associated with biotite clots in the pegmatite. A radiometric anomaly measuring 30 by 10 metres is associated with several pegmatite lenses in biotite gneiss. A SRAT SPP2 scintillometre gave readings up to 4000 counts per second (background is 80-100 counts per second) (Assessment Report 5585).

Bibliography
EM COMM FILE Uranium
EMPR ASS RPT *3172, *5585, 5964, 6536, 7621
EMPR EXPL 1975-11; 1976-18; 1977-12,13
EMPR GEM 1971-374
GSC MAP 6-1957
GSC OF 1969
GSC P 69-22
CIM BULL Aug. 1980, p. 100
EMPR PFD 650024

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