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MINFILE No 082LNE025

File Created:	01-Feb-1991	by	George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:	30-Dec-1993	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	REVELSTOKE, REVELSTOKE FLAGSTONE, BEGBIE FLAGSTONE	Mining Division	Revelstoke
		BCGS Map	082L099
Status	Producer	NTS Map	082L16E
Latitude	050º 56' 52''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	118º 12' 40''	Northing	5644716
		Easting	414923
Commodities	Flagstone, Dimension Stone, Building Stone, Aggregate	Deposit Types	R08 : Flagstone R15 : Crushed rock
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Monashee

Capsule Geology

The Revelstoke flagstone quarry is situated within the Precambrian-Paleozoic(?) Monashee Complex. This small, one-man enterprise was started in 1957 and operates in the summers only. Drilling and blasting is done to loosen the slabs, followed by hand-splitting. The stone is a light grey muscovite mica schist which is supplied to building material companies in British Columbia and Alberta. Production averages about 200 tonnes per year (Z.D. Hora, personal communication, 1993).


Bibliography	EMPR ENG INSP 1989 EMPR EXPL 1985-A46; 1986-A77; 1996-A13 EMPR INF CIRC 1988-6, p. 26; 1996-1, p. 10; 1997-1, p. 13; 1998-1, p. 15 EMPR MAP 65 (1989) EMPR MINING 1986-1987, p. 82; 1988, p. 80 EMPR OF 1988-13; 1992-1; 1992-9; 1994-1 GSC MAP 235A; 1059A GSC MEM 296 GSC OF 481; 658