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MINFILE No  082FSW271
File Created: 08-Jul-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  15-Oct-1990 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name GIBSON CREEK Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F032
Status Showing NTS Map 082F05E
Latitude 049º 22' 50'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 38' 14'' Northing 5469957
Easting 453748
Commodities Uranium, Thorium Deposit Types O02 : Rare element pegmatite - NYF family
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Pegmatite in granitic rock of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions contains disseminated uraninite. A 0.6-metre channel sample assayed 0.09 per cent uranium and 0.021 per cent thorium oxide (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1955, page 50).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1944-59; *1955-50
EMPR BULL 41; 109
EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, pp. 61-62, pp. 106-107; 1979, 131-142; 1980, pp. 149-158; 1981, pp. 28-32, pp. 176-186; 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1990, pp. 291-300
EMPR MAP 22; 7685G; RGS 1977; 8484G
EMPR OF *1990-32; 1991-16
GSC EC GEOL Ser. #16 (2nd Ed.), p. 232
GSC MAP 1090A
GSC OF 551
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