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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  16-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name EXPANDER Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G063
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12E
Latitude 049º 39' 50'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 34' 26'' Northing 5502238
Easting 602914
Commodities Gold Deposit Types C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Expander showing, in 1961, 222 cubic metres of material were sluiced from Tertiary gravels in the Wild Horse River near the mouth of Fisher Creek. A fair amount(?) of gold is reported to have been recovered.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1961-136
EMPR MAP 36
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 396A; 11-1960
GSC MEM 76
EMPR PFD 3417

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