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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Dec-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name TRIDENT MOUNTAIN KYANITE, MT. NEPTUNE Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082M100
Status Showing NTS Map 082M16E
Latitude 051º 54' 33'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 06' 30'' Northing 5751516
Easting 423760
Commodities Kyanite Deposit Types P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

In the Trident Mountain area, 15 kilometres east-southeast of Mica Creek kyanite is extremely abundant in pelitic schists and quartz-kyanite segregation veins; kyanite often comprises in excess of 10 per cent of the rock. This area is underlain by the Lower Aluminous Pelite division of the Horsethief Creek Group (Perkins, 1983), a unit which commonly contains abundant aluminosilicate minerals.

Bibliography
EMPR OF *1988-26, p. 11; 1991-10
GSC MAP 12-1964
GSC P 64-32
*Perkins, M.J. (1983): Structural Geology and Stratigraphy, Big Bend of the Columbia River, Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia; unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, 239 pages

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