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MINFILE No  082GNE025
File Created: 16-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)
Last Edit:  05-May-2011 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI 082G10 Phs1
Name CROWS, CROWSNEST, ALEXANDER CREEK Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G067
Status Showing NTS Map 082G10E
Latitude 049º 39' 55'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 43' 29'' Northing 5503901
Easting 664185
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Crows showing, thin phosphoritic beds occur at the base of the Jurassic Fernie Formation shales and above the basal contact with the Triassic Spray River Group. Beds are thin but persistent oolitic sandstones.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1930-245; 1967-311
EMPR OF 1987-16
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM 336
GSC P 61-24
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