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File Created: 31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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NMI
Name CARSWELL, BOULEAU LAKE Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L022
Status Showing NTS Map 082L05E
Latitude 050º 17' 25'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 38' 43'' Northing 5574253
Easting 311577
Commodities Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types O04 : Feldspar-quartz pegmatite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Carswell showing is located 26 kilometres west of Vernon, north of Bouleau Lake.

In this area, Devonian to Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Harper Ranch Group are intruded by Middle Jurassic granitic rocks. Extensive Eocene Penticton Group and Kamloops Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlie the older units.

Kamloops Group volcaniclastic sandstone, between andesite flows, hosts agate.

Bibliography
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
EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966)
EMPR RGS 1976
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 637, 736, 2167
GSC P *72-53, p. 23; 89-1E pp. 51-60

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