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MINFILE No 082GSE062

File Created:	12-Dec-1986	by	Steve B. Butrenchuk (SBB)
Last Edit:	12-Dec-1986	by	Steve B. Butrenchuk (SBB)

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		NMI
Name	LODGEPOLE PHOSPHATE	Mining Division	Fort Steele
		BCGS Map	082G036
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082G07W
Latitude	049º 18' 50''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	114º 55' 34''	Northing	5464419
		Easting	650729
Commodities	Phosphate	Deposit Types	F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt	Foreland	Terrane	Ancestral North America

Capsule Geology

At the Lodgepole Phosphate showing, a 12 centimetre thick phosphorite bed occurs within two limestone horizons at the base of the Jurassic Fernie Group. This phosphorite bed has a phosphate content of 14.3 per cent P2O5 (Open File 1987-16). These strata unconformably overlie strata of the Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation (Spray River Group). Thrust faulting and small scale folding are abundant.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1966-271

EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 289-302

EMPR OF 1987-16

EMPR Unpub. Report Dec. 1, 1967 "Phosphate Occurrences in B.C."

GSC MAP 20-1958; 1154A

GSC MEM *336

GSC P 58-10; 61-24

CIM Vol.36, pp. 566-605

PERS COMM Butrenchuk, S.B. (1986)

*Freebold, H. (1969): Subdivision and Facies of Lower Jurassic Rocks in the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains and Foothills, G.A.C. Proceedings Vol. 20, pp. 76-87