British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas and Responsible for Housing
News | The Premier Online | Ministries & Organizations | Job Opportunities | Main Index

MINFILE Home page  ARIS Home page  MINFILE Search page  Property File Search
Help Help
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Sep-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)

Summary Help Help

NMI
Name SOLITUDE MOUNTAIN, CARIBOU CREEK Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082N082
Status Showing NTS Map 082N13W
Latitude 051º 52' 21'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 46' 12'' Northing 5747138
Easting 446989
Commodities Nepheline Syenite Deposit Types R13 : Nepheline syenite
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

A dike-like body of nepheline syenite, identified from Geological Survey of Canada Map 4-1961, is situated 11 kilometres southeast of the Sullivan River and crosses the valley of Caribou Creek, about 87 kilometres north-northwest of Golden.

The Solitude Mountain nepheline syenite forms an irregular dike-like body a little more than 1.6 kilometres long and less than 304 metres wide, with its long axis trending about 290 degrees. The mid-Paleozoic (?) body cuts irregularly across part of the "Kinbasket limestone". The texture of the nepheline syenite varies from the west to east. In the west, it is coarse grained with closely packed, moderately well-formed crystals of potash feldspar and minor interstitial biotite. Towards the east it becomes fine to medium grained and near the east end is quite variable in texture and composition. Many dike-like tongues extend into the limestone and limy argillite around the eastern end of the mass, and inclusions of limestone within the syenite are common. Most of the syenite is composed of microcline-microperthite, nepheline, biotite and locally carbonate. Amphibole, epidote and garnet are present in coarse-grained lenses near the eastern end of the mass.

Contacts of the syenite with the enclosing limestone are generally well defined but in detail are highly irregular and are gradational over a couple of metres. On the southwest side of Caribou Creek, limestone forming inclusions in or lying along the margins of the syenite is altered to a fine grained greenish rock composed mainly of calcite with interstitial feldspar, clinozoisite and chlorite.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1959-103,104
EMPR OF 1991-10
GSC MAP *4-1961; 43-1962
GSC OF 481
GSC P 32-62

COPYRIGHT | DISCLAIMER | PRIVACY | ACCESSIBILITY