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MINFILE No  082FSW220
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Mar-1991 by Brian Grant (BG)

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NMI
Name CURLETT Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F014
Status Showing NTS Map 082F03W
Latitude 049º 11' 28'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 15' 46'' Northing 5448734
Easting 480853
Commodities Molybdenum Deposit Types * : Unknown
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A small inlier of metamorphic rocks, possibly of the Lower Jurassic aged Rossland Group, Elise Formation outcrop directly east of Salmo in contact with granite of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions. The metamorphic rocks carry disseminated grains of pyrite and molybdenite and the mineralization has a northerly trend coincident with the gneissosity.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 109
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1989, pp. 11-27; 1990, pp. 9-31
EMPR GEM *1969-317
EMPR OF 1988-1; 1989-11; 1990-8; 1990-9; 1991-2; 1991-16
GSC MAP 299A; 1090A; *1145A
GSC MEM 308
GSC OF 1195
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