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MINFILE No  082GSE038
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 Phs4
Name PH Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G047
Status Showing NTS Map 082G07E
Latitude 049º 27' 20'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 40' 16'' Northing 5480707
Easting 668775
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

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

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 6859
EMPR OF 1987-16
EMPR Unpub. Report Dec. 1, 1967 "Phosphate in B.C."
GSC MAP 20-1958; 1154A
GSC MEM *336
GSC P 58-10; *61-24
CIM *1944, V. 36, pp. 566-605
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