MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW095

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

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		NMI
Name	SALMON RIVER NORTH, FALKLAND	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	082L042
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L05E
Latitude	050º 28' 58''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 41' 11''	Northing	5595758
		Easting	309422
Commodities	Limestone	Deposit Types	R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Harper Ranch

Capsule Geology

The Salmon River North showing is located 9 kilometres west of Falkland, north of the Salmon River.

In this area, sedimentary rocks of the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group are in probable unconformable contact with Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Cretaceous granodiorite plugs of the Salmon Arm Intrusions intrude the Nicola Group rocks. Extensive Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic rocks cap the older rocks.

The Harper Ranch Group hosts a Permian limestone lens. The lens consists of vertical thick and thin beds of light grey limestone over a maximum thickness of 150 metres and an exposed strike of 1200 metres. The lens contains irregular zones and patches of chert, quartz and argillaceous material. Sampling returned 50.13 per cent CaO, 1.6 per cent MgO, 0.24 per cent Fe2O3 and insolubles at 6.5 per cent (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1961, pages 144, 148).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1961-144,145,148 EMPR FIELDWORK 1982, pp. 89-92; 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363 EMPR MAP 37, 5214G, 7216G EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30, 1992-18, pp. 81, 83 EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966) EMPR RGS 1976 GSC MEM 296 GSC OF 637 (Map B), 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60