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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-May-2007 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI 082N4 Be1
Name WOOLSEY CREEK Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082N011
Status Showing NTS Map 082N04W
Latitude 051º 07' 10'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 53' 34'' Northing 5663487
Easting 437516
Commodities Beryl Deposit Types P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Kootenay
Capsule Geology

Pegmatites were exposed on a trail a short distance from the Canadian Pacific Railway. The trail (apparently obliterated by a logging road) follows Woolsey (Silver) Creek and leads to the Snowflake occurrence (082N 003).

The Woolsey Creek showing area is underlain by Lower Paleozoic quartzites, orthogneiss and quartz mica schists cut by Devonian granite-gneiss, granite and pegmatite. "Gunning found beryl in some of the pegmatites". Little or no tourmaline was evident (Geological Survey of Canada Economic Geology No. 23, page 61).

Bibliography
GSC ECON GEOL *23, p. 61
GSC MAP 4-1961; 43-1962
GSC OF 481
GSC P 60-21, p. 10; 62-32
GSC SUM RPT *1928 Part A, p. 156
PERS COMM McCammon, J.

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