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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Oct-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name JAB Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082K089
Status Showing NTS Map 082K16W
Latitude 050º 48' 19'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 21' 34'' Northing 5628367
Easting 545135
Commodities Magnesite Deposit Types E09 : Sparry magnesite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The JAB claims were located over the first recorded magnesite discovery in the area. The magnesite forms a bare knoll about fifteen metres high and about 122 metres long by thirty to fifty metres wide. Most of the knoll consists of a medium to coarse-grained structure- less, pale grey to white rock. Thin layers of magnesite separated by slickensided films of talc and serpentine occur at the southeast corner of the knoll. Visible impurities include patches of coarse, white dolomite, talc-serpentine films, discontinuous stringers of quartz and chalcedony and scattered crystals and small lenses of pyrite. Chip sampling over the top of the knoll contained 44.02 per cent MgO, 0.47 per cent CaO, 43.82 per cent CO2, 8.99 per cent SiO2 and 0.99 per cent Fe (Total).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1962-156; 1964-195,199
EMPR OF 1987-13
GSC MAP 12-1957
EMPR PFD 3738, 3739, 3740

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