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MINFILE No  082GSE053
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 Phs5
Name RA Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G037
Status Showing NTS Map 082G07E
Latitude 049º 22' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 43' 04'' Northing 5470723
Easting 665692
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Ra 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 phosphate rock and phosphatic shale at the base of the Jurassic Fernie Group.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1968-324
EMPR GEM 1969-399
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 *Vol.36, pp. 566-605
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