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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 KENDRY CREEK Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L045
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082L06E
Latitude 050º 27' 29'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 07' 14'' Northing 5591710
Easting 349481
Commodities Limestone, Marble Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Kendry Creek deposit is located 5 kilometres east of Armstrong on the north side of Kendry Creek.

This area, east of the Okanagan Valley fault, is underlain by gneissic rocks of unknown age, metasedimentary rocks of the Proterozoic Silver Creek Formation and volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Cambro-Ordovician Tsalkom Formation and the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group. All these units are probably in low-angle fault contact with each other. Intruding these rocks are Middle Jurassic granitic bodies. Pegmatite bodies of Mesozoic or Cenozoic age intrude the Silver Creek Formation.

A small marble lens within slates of the Tsalkom Formation has been a source of calcite for industrial use. The coarse-grained, grey marble is exposed over a 7 to 15-metre width and can be traced for a length of 50 metres, striking 075 degrees and dipping 75 degrees north. The individual beds are up to 0.5 metre thick with intercalated layers of calc-silicate minerals. Fine-grained crystalline pyrite is present is some areas. In 1944, sampling assayed 94.2 per cent calcite and 52.8 per cent CaO. Sampling in 1961 returned 53.1 per cent CaO, 0.30 per cent MgO, 0.40 per cent Fe2O3 and insolubles at 3.9 per cent (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1961, pp. 146, 148).

Earlier this century, the marble was quarried and burnt on site in a lime kiln. Later, Land Limes Ltd. operated a small quarry and crushing mill to produce pulverized limestone for agricultural purposes. In 1921, 308 tonnes of limestone were quarried.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1961-145-148
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363
EMPR MAP 7216G, 8513G
EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30, 1992-18
EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966)
EMPR RGS 1976
GSC MAP 46-7, 1712A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 637, 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60
GSC SUM RPT 1931A, p. 99
CANMET RPT (Bureau of Mines) *811, p. 204,205
EMPR PFD 520020

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