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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 UPPER MUTZ CREEK Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G065
Status Showing NTS Map 082G11E
Latitude 049º 36' 02'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 06' 04'' Northing 5495952
Easting 637208
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Upper Mutz Creek showing, phosphatic chert and nodular phosphatic sandstone occur in two beds 40 to 50 centimetres thick and 10 to 20 centimetres thick separated by 1 to 2 metres of non-phosphatic sandstone. The best assay obtained was 0.53 per cent P2O5 across a width of 40 centimetres (Open File 1987-16). This phosphate occurs within 25 metres of the bottom of the Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation (Spray River Group). Bedding is overturned in this area.

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1987-16; *1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM 76

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