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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 NORTH SULPHUR CREEK Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G075
Status Showing NTS Map 082G11E
Latitude 049º 44' 25'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 02' 54'' Northing 5511582
Easting 640618
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the North Sulphur Creek showing, a poorly exposed coquinoid bed of the Permian Ross Creek Formation (Ishbel Group) contains a few phosphate nodules as well as disseminated phosphate pellets and cement. Some of the brachiopod shells within the coquinoid bed have been phosphatized. This phosphatic horizon is 90 centimetres thick and contains 0.9 per cent P2O5 (Open File 1987-16).

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

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