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File Created: 16-May-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  30-Jul-1997 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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Name FIRE MOUNTAIN GYPSUM Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092G089
Status Showing NTS Map 092G16W
Latitude 049º 49' 56'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 17' 47'' Northing 5520214
Easting 550601
Commodities Gypsum Deposit Types F02 : Bedded gypsum
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier
Capsule Geology

Gypsum outcrops on the southeast flank of Fire Mountain, 1.4 kilometres southwest of the Lillooet River, 14 kilometres northwest of the north end of Harrison Lake.

The showing is hosted in volcaniclastic sandstone and feldspathic greywacke of the third member of the Lower Cretaceous Brokenback Hill Formation, Fire Lake Group.

The gypsum occurs in a 3 to 5 metre thick bed of crumbly, light coloured rock of exhalative origin that has been traced for 100 metres. The bed contains 40 to 60 per cent, fine to medium-grained gypsum, cementing sand. Disseminated pyrite locally comprises up to 15 per cent of the rock. The bed is brecciated in places, where clasts of gypsum are cemented by a second phase of gypsum.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 20068
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-184; 1984, pp. 42-53; 1985, pp. 120-131
GSC MAP 1069A; 1151A; 1386A
GSC MEM 335, pp. 42-44
GSC OF *2203
GSC P 86-1B, pp. 699-706; 89-1E, pp. 177-187; *90-1E, pp. 183-195, *197-204; 90-1F, pp. 95-107
Arthur, A. (1987): Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the West Side Of Harrison Lake, Southwestern British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia

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