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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  03-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name OUTLIER RIDGE Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G016
Status Showing NTS Map 082G02W
Latitude 049º 06' 40'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 51' 14'' Northing 5442026
Easting 656617
Commodities Barite Deposit Types I10 : Vein barite
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Outlier Ridge showing, steeply dipping quartz-calcite- barite veins cut strata of the Helikian Roosville Formation (Purcell Supergroup) consisting of siltstone, argillite, sandstone, quartzite and dolomite, in the southwestern part of the MacDonald Range. Three barite showings were discovered along the crestal region of the Wigwam anticline. The veins are fracture-fillings that vary in thickness from a few centimetres to over one metre.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 35-1961
GSC MEM 336
GSC P 61-24

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