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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 082L13 Fsp1
Name TO Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L082
Status Showing NTS Map 082L13E
Latitude 050º 49' 27'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 40' 23'' Northing 5633677
Easting 311738
Commodities Fluorite Deposit Types I11 : Barite-fluorite veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The To showing is situated near the contact between the Ordovician Little Shuswap orthogneiss of the Mount Ida Group and the Hadrynian and/or Paleozoic Silver Creek Formation. In the showing area, the Little Shuswap orthogneiss comprises granitic to dioritic gneisses and the Silver Creek Formation comprises mica schists and amphibolites.

Fluorite is observed in amphibolite and granite gneiss (described as andesite and syenite respectively, in Assessment Report 3915). The fluorite is associated with fractures, either as a constituent of quartz veins up to 20 centimetres wide, or as a thin coating on fracture surfaces. Where the fluorite occurs as coatings on fracture surfaces, it averages about 2 millimetres wide although in some instances the coatings attain a width of about 10 millimetres.

The fluorite mineralization is associated with a fracture system that strikes to the northeast and dips steeply either to the northwest of southeast. The fluorite mineralization occurs over a distance of 485 metres.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *3915
EMPR GEM 1972-587
EMPR OF 1992-16
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 171)
GSC P 48-4; 74-1A, pp. 25-30; 86-1A, pp. 81-88; 89-1E, pp. 51-60
CJES Vol.21 (Oct.1984), pp. 1171-1193
EMPR PFD 906578

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