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File Created: 19-Apr-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  26-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name SHUSWAP LIMESTONE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L095
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082L14E
Latitude 050º 55' 58'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 04' 09'' Northing 5644388
Easting 354604
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

A bluff of crystalline limestone of the Hadrynian? to Paleozoic Eagle Bay assemblage is situated on the west shore of Shuswap Lake (Salmon Arm), across from Quartzite Point. The limestone mass continues southwest for 7.5 kilometres.

Limestone was quarried and burnt to produce lime sometime during the early 1900s.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1913-204
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 49-54
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
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
EMPR PFD 824305

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