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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Jun-2020 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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Name BROADWATER Mining Division Nelson, Trail Creek
BCGS Map 082E050
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082E08E
Latitude 049º 28' 02'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 05' 11'' Northing 5479964
Easting 421285
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Kootenay
Capsule Geology

A band of limestone outcrops on the east side of Lower Arrow Lake, 0.8 kilometres south of the Broadwater Post Office. The limestone has been correlated with the Pennsylvanian to Permian Mount Roberts Formation or (according to the Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1969) an unnamed Ordovician to Devonian unit. The band continues eastward up the mountain side for at least 400 metres and possibly up to 8 kilometres. The band is 150 metres wide on the lake. Bedding strikes 065 degrees and dips 55 degrees southeast.

The band consists of medium to coarse grained, grey and white thin bedded limestone containing some silicates and pyrite. Argillite interbeds occur on the south side of the deposit. Numerous randomly orientated dykes intrude the limestone on the north side. A sample taken across the entire lake side exposure contained 51.55 per cent CaO, 0.35 per cent MgO, 6.62 per cent insolubles, 0.26 per cent R2O3, 0.20 per cent Fe2O3, 0.045 per cent MnO, 0.016 per cent P2O5, 0.03 per cent sulphur, 41.06 per cent ignition loss and 0.13 per cent water (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1959, p. 173, Sample 7).

A small quarry was opened up on the deposit near the lakeshore, 46 metres from the southern edge of the limestone band. The limestone was used to manufacture lime sometime earlier this century but no production figures are available.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1959-173,174
EMPR OF 1992-18, pp. 116, 117
GSC MAP 1736A, 6-1957
GSC OF 1969
CANMET RPT 811, pp. 206-207
EMPR PFD 1055
Höy, T. (2010-04-13): Technical Report – Geology, Mineralization, and Exploration, Deer Park Property.

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