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File Created: 12-Aug-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  12-Aug-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name SADDLE, SADDLE (EAST), SADDLE (WEST) Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082O001
Status Showing NTS Map 082O04W
Latitude 051º 05' 23'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 54' 17'' Northing 5660373
Easting 576706
Commodities Talc Deposit Types E08 : Carbonate-hosted talc
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

Two small exposures of white talc are located 1.4 kilometres northwest of the Red Mountain occurrence (082O 002). They are 230 metres apart and on the east and west sides of a steep ridge. The west occurrence is in Alberta and the east occurrence is in British Columbia. The exposures are just above talus aprons, at a narrow break in slope between a lower cliff of rusty weathering quartz arenites of the Lower Cambrian Gog Group to the north, and a cliff of bedded dolomites of the Middle Cambrian Cathedral Formation to the south. They are 750 metres north of the Cathedral escarpment and 130 and 300 metres southwest, respectively, of the Haiduk fault that cuts through the prominent saddle between the Talc Lake and Mummy Lake basins. See Red Mountain (082O 002) for detailed regional geology.

At the Saddle (East) occurrence, an interval of white talc 2.5 metres thick, is stratabound in thin-bedded dolomite of the basal Cathedral Formation, 2.5 metres above pyritic, possibly weakly talc-altered quartz arenite of the Gog Group.

The talc is sub-opaque, pale orangish white to limonitic and rusty orange on fresh surfaces, and contains very minor quartz and pyrite. Shear and fracture surfaces cutting the talc weather medium to dark, rusty orange-brown. Very strong fracturing yields a rough and rubbly weathering surface.

The Saddle (West) occurrence, 230 metres west of the Saddle (East) occurrence and in Alberta, comprises white talc that appears to be stratabound in a faulted interval, 7 metres wide and more than 20 metres long, between dolomite and argillite at the base of the Cathedral Formation. The talc resembles that of the east occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK *1992, pp. 361-379
GSC MAP 1457A
GSC OF 481

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