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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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Name SWEETSBRIDGE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L043
Status Prospect NTS Map 082L06W
Latitude 050º 27' 10'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 28' 44'' Northing 5591911
Easting 324030
Commodities Gypsum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Sweetsbridge showing is located 8 kilometres southeast of Falkland, on the north slope of the Salmon River valley.

In this area, sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group are in fault contact to the north with Cambrian-Ordovician volcanic (Tsalkom Formation) and sedimentary (Sicamous Formation) rocks. To the south the Nicola Group is in probable unconformable contact with Devonian to Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Harper Ranch Group. Cretaceous granodiorite plugs of the Salmon Arm Intrusions intrude the Nicola, Sicamous and Tsalkom rocks. Outliers of Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic rocks are present in the area.

Sedimentary rocks of the Nicola Group host a gypsum deposit. White, brown and grey gypsum is exposed over a length of 180 metres, with a 12 metre thickness. It is similar to the Falkland deposit (082LNW001), 8 kilometres along strike to the northwest. The deposit may be a gypsum-rich facies of a Kuroko-type deposit.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363
EMPR MAP 7216G, 8513G
EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30, *1991-15, p. 36
EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966)
EMPR RGS 1976
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 637, 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60
EMPR PFD 825376, 825384

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