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File Created: 14-Dec-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  14-Dec-2017 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI
Name GABE Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E048
Status Prospect NTS Map 082E07E, 082E07W
Latitude 049º 28' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 35' 04'' Northing 5480542
Easting 385199
Commodities Granite, Dimension Stone, Building Stone Deposit Types R03 : Dimension stone - granite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Gabe prospect is located 8 kilometres east of Gable Mountain and 75 kilometres north of Grand Forks.

The prospect is owned and operated by J. Kemp and D. Hairsine.

The rose pink rock occurs in a boulder field approximately 1 by 2 kilometres and an outcrop about 30 by 50 metres across. The stone is uniform, pink quartz syenite of the Eocene Coryell Batholith and has no inclusions or inhomogeneities. Part of the area is underlain by porphyritic rock. No exfoliation features, joints or microfracturing have been observed.

The stone is a light pink, fine to medium-grained quartz syenite. The texture is fairly uniform and even with no large phenocrysts. Major constituents are orthoclase, plagioclase and quartz. Minor constituents are biotite, chlorite, magnetite, pyrite (less than 0.5 per cent), apatite, zircon and clinozoisite. The rock shows no staining and only a little alteration in the form of green dots of chlorite after biotite. There are a few short (less than 2 centimetres), tight cracks scattered in the rock.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1992, pp. 107-116
EMPR FIELDWORK 1994, pp. 365-369; *1996, pp. 301-306
EMPR OF 2008-1
GBC MAP 2016-07-1
GSC MAP 1736A; 1957-6
GSC OF 481; 1969
GSC P 89-1E
Focus on Industrial Minerals, Vol. 3, Issue 1
Streckeisen, A. (1976): To Each Plutonic Rock its Proper Name; Earth and Science Reviews, Volume 12, pages 1-33.
EMPR PFD 680025

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