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MINFILE No  082FNE163
File Created: 16-Oct-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name MALLANDAINE PASS Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F059
Status Showing NTS Map 082F09W
Latitude 049º 30' 45'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 17' 44'' Northing 5484669
Easting 550994
Commodities Magnesite Deposit Types E09 : Sparry magnesite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

This occurrence is reported from several sources as being located along the ridge east of Mallandaine Pass and Mount McKay and within the main body of the Lower Cambrian Cranbrook Formation quartzites to the west of Hellroaring Creek.

An exact location and detailed description of the magnesite is unavailable other than it is hosted by quartzites and is of good grade.

Bibliography
GSC SUM RPT 1932, Part A, p. 103
GSC P 37-27, p. 17
GSC MEM 228, pp. 29,56
GSC MAP 603A
EMPR AR 1901-1006; 1906-251; 1907-217; *1964-193-194
EMPR OF 1987-13
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