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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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Name NORDSTRUM Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G085
Status Showing NTS Map 082G15W
Latitude 049º 51' 50'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 59' 59'' Northing 5525416
Easting 643753
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Nordstrum showing, three phosphate beds, each approximately 1 metre thick, are exposed across a width of 60 metres. Host lithologies are siltstone and fine sandstone of the Permian Johnson Canyon Formation (Ishbel Group). Phosphate is present as nodules, pellets and cement. The most westerly bed contains 21.20 per cent P2O5 across a width of 1 metre. The two easterly beds contain 5 per cent phosphate nodules by volume (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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