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File Created: 10-Jan-1994 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  10-Jan-1994 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name MOUNT GRIFFIN Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082L098
Status Showing NTS Map 082L15E
Latitude 050º 55' 55'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 33' 44'' Northing 5643419
Easting 390222
Commodities Mica Deposit Types O03 : Muscovite pegmatite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

Small amounts of books of amber sheet-mica, up to 20 centimetres across, have been observed in pegmatites on Mount Griffin, located about 26 kilometres west of Revelstoke. The mica is fractured and twinned and contains inclusions.

Surrounding rocks comprise Precambrian-Paleozoic(?) Shuswap Metamorphic Complex granitic gneiss, paragneiss, garnet sillimanite schist, amphibolite, marble, orthogneiss and quartzite.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 54-58; 1988, pp. 49-54
EMPR OF 1990-30
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM *296, p. 157
GSC OF 481

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