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MINFILE No  082LNW048
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  07-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 082L13 Fsp2
Name LITTLE SHUSWAP LAKE, LITTLE SHUSWAP Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L082
Status Showing NTS Map 082L13E
Latitude 050º 51' 03'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 39' 49'' Northing 5636618
Easting 312510
Commodities Fluorite Deposit Types I11 : Barite-fluorite veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

At the Little Shuswap Lake showing, quartz veinlets contain crystals of pale purple fluorite, hosted in granitic gneisses of the Ordovician Little Shuswap orthogneiss of the Mount Ida Group.

This showing is the first reported fluorspar locality in the province.

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1992-16
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC ANN RPT *1877-78, p. 101B
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296, p. 159
GSC OF 481; 637
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
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