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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Aug-2007 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI 082F2 Kyn
Name SUMMIT Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F017
Status Showing NTS Map 082F02W
Latitude 049º 08' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 46' 04'' Northing 5442304
Easting 516940
Commodities Kyanite Deposit Types P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Minister of Mines Annual Report for 1899 records the presence of kyanite crystals scattered in biotite muscovite schist "on the ridge south of Summit Creek". The plotted location (to within 5 kilometres) may be a little to the west of the most likely location according to Geological Survey of Canada Map 1714A and recent mapping by Brown et al. (Fieldwork 1994), which show the highest grade (kyanite-sillimanite amphibolite facies) on and to the east of Creston Mountain, in metamorphosed Aldridge Formation rocks of the Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup. The Fieldwork 1994 map also shows several locations where kyanite was confirmed by petrographic or microprobe analysis (map, page 138).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1899-712
EMPR FIELDWORK 1994, pp. 135-155
GSC ANN RPT 1897, p. 30
GSC MAP 603A; 1714A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929; 2721

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