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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 MUTZ CREEK Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G055
Status Showing NTS Map 082G11E
Latitude 049º 30' 40'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 05' 04'' Northing 5486039
Easting 638665
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Mutz Creek showing, a 3.1 metre thick section of phosphorite and phosphatic shale occurs near the base of the Jurassic Fernie Group. A conglomerate occurs at the base. These strata unconformably overlie calcareous siltstone and silty limestone of the Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation (Spray River Group). The entire sequence is overturned and dips moderately to the west. The phosphate interval has an average of 0.68 per cent P205 across 3.1 metres (Open File 1987-16).

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

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