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File Created: 04-Feb-1987 by Steve B. Butrenchuk (SBB)
Last Edit:  04-Feb-1987 by Steve B. Butrenchuk (SBB)

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NMI
Name SUMMIT LAKE Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G067
Status Showing NTS Map 082G10E
Latitude 049º 39' 10'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 42' 34'' Northing 5502545
Easting 665330
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Summit Lake showing, an approximately 3 metre thick sandstone of Permian age overlies Kananaskis or possibly Tunnel Mountain formations strata of the Pennsylvanian Spray Lakes Group. Within the sandstone is a nodular phosphate horizon approximately 1 metre thick. Nodules are 2 to 5 centimetres in size and contain 25.7 per cent P2O5. A grab sample of siltstone with abundant nodules contained 14.5 per cent P2O5 (Open File 1987-16).

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1987-16
GSC MAP 35-1961; 1154A
GSC MEM 287; 336
GSC P 61-24

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