MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082GSE057

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	LODGE	Mining Division	Fort Steele
		BCGS Map	082G026
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082G07W
Latitude	049º 16' 30''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	114º 48' 34''	Northing	5460336
		Easting	659333
Commodities	Phosphate	Deposit Types	F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt	Foreland	Terrane	Ancestral North America

Capsule Geology

A phosphorite bed approximately 1 metre thick occurs in brown and black shale and siltstone at the base of the Jurassic Fernie Group. These strata unconformably overlie fine siltstone of the Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation (Spray River Group). Phosphate was intersected in one hole drilled by Imperial Oil. It contained 17.33 per cent P2O5 across 2.44 metres. Only one poorly exposed and badly weathered outcrop of phosphate is exposed in the Lodge occurrence area. A bulk grab sample of phosphorite from this locality contained 29.5 per cent P2O5 (Open File 1987-16).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1968-324 EMPR ASS RPT 5556, 7616, 7617, 10135 EMPR OF 1987-16 EMPR GEM 1969-399 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 (1944), pp. 566-605 PERS COMM Butrenchuk, S.B. (1986)