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MINFILE No  082LNW076
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  02-May-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name ROBBINS CREEK Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L061
Status Showing NTS Map 082L12W
Latitude 050º 36' 49'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 57' 31'' Northing 5611037
Easting 290694
Commodities Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types Q03 : Agate
Q04 : Amethyst
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

Agate and amethyst-lined geodes occur in bluffs of columnar basalt of the Eocene Kamloops Group. This locality has been hunted for years so that material is less abundant than now; most of the specimens were labouriously chiseled from the parent rock (GSC Paper 72-53, page 23).

Bibliography
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet; see 082LNW077 (Squilax) - Western Homes and Living, October 1961, pp. 21,22)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637
GSC P 48-4; *72-53, pp. 22,23; 74-1A, pp. 25-30; 86-1A, pp. 81-88; 89-1E, pp. 51-60
CJES Vol.21 (Oct.1984), pp. 1171-1193l
EMPR PFD 21703, 21704
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