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MINFILE No  082GSE005
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  03-Oct-2007 by Mandy N. Desautels (MND)

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NMI 082G7 Phs2
Name LODGEPOLE CREEK Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G036
Status Showing NTS Map 082G07W
Latitude 049º 18' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 54' 34'' Northing 5463835
Easting 651957
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Lodgepole Creek showing, phosphate is identified within a nodular phosphatic sandstone at the base of the Triassic Spray River Group, and as a nodular and oolitic phosphate rock and phosphatic shale at the base of the Jurassic Fernie Group.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1966-271
EMPR OF 1987-16
EMPR Report Dec. 1, 1967 "Phosphate Occurrences in B.C." (unpub.
report)
GSC MAP 20-1958; 1154A
GSC MEM *336
GSC P 58-10; *61-24
CIM 1944 Vol.36, pp. 566-605
EMPR PFD 3483
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