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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Dec-1986 by Steve B. Butrenchuk (SBB)

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Name ISLAND LAKE TWO Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G055
Status Showing NTS Map 082G11E
Latitude 049º 31' 35'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 10' 44'' Northing 5487568
Easting 631788
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Island Lake Two showing, a 1 metre thick pelletal phosphorite bed is exposed in a trench along a power line right-of-way. Phosphate content is 15.4 per cent P2O5 (Open File 1987-16). This phosphate occurs in the basal portion of the Jurassic Fernie Group.

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1987-16; *1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM 76
PERS COMM Butrenchuk, S.B. (1986)

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