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File Created: 12-Sep-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name EHOLT LIMESTONE Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E018
Status Showing NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 08' 13'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 32' 48'' Northing 5443831
Easting 387185
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

A limestone lens of the Upper Triassic Brooklyn Formation forms a 120 metre high hill, 2 kilometres due south of Eholt. The lens strikes north-northeast for 600 metres and dips nearly vertical. Exposed widths vary up to 150 metres. The limestone is bounded to the west by granodiorite of the Middle Jurassic Nelson Intrusions.

The lens consists of coarse grained, white to pale blue, thick bedded, high calcium limestone that becomes siliceous and cherty towards the margins of the deposit. A few dykes intrude the limestone. A sample across a pure limestone bed on the south face of the hill contained 54.27 per cent CaO, 0.18 per cent MgO, 2.58 per cent SiO2, 0.04 per cent Al2O3, 0.38 per cent Fe2O3 and 0.01 per cent sulphur (Canada Bureau of Mines Report 811, p. 202, Sample 61).

A second lens of light grey, medium grained limestone forms a steep, 90 metre high bluff 200 metres west of Highway 3, 2.5 kilometres south of Eholt. Local concentrations of chert and other impurities are present. A sample of chips collected randomly across the top of the cliff contained 52.40 per cent CaO, 0.38 per cent MgO, 4.94 per cent insolubles, 0.38 per cent R2O3, 0.32 per cent Fe2O3, 0.03 per cent MnO, 0.04 per cent P2O5, 0.03 per cent sulphur and 41.75 per cent ignition loss (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1960, p. 143, Sample 4).

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR AR 1960-141,143
EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)
EMPR OF 1990-25; 1992-18, pp. 120, 122
EMPR P 1986-2
EMPR PF (Map of limestone lenses northwest of Grand Forks - in General File)
EMPR PRELIM MAP 59
GSC MAP 828; 45-20A; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A
GSC OF 481; 637; 1969
GSC P 67-42; 79-29, pp. 14-17
CANMET RPT 811, Part 5, pp. 194,202

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