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MINFILE No  082GNW056
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name EAGER STATION Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G052
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12E
Latitude 049º 34' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 39' 04'' Northing 5491327
Easting 597536
Commodities Clay Deposit Types R02 : Expanding shale
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Eager Station showing is comprised of Cambrian red shale with fair plasticity and average (4.4 per cent) shrinkage. It should be suitable for facebrick.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 30, p. 59
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM 76; 65, p. 33
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