MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GSE057

File Created:	31-Aug-1994	by	Caline E. Kilby (CEK)
Last Edit:	06-Sep-1994	by	Caline E. Kilby (CEK)

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		NMI
Name	STRONG, POST CREEK	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092G008
Status	Prospect	NTS Map	092G01W
Latitude	049º 01' 34''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	122º 25' 42''	Northing	5430516
		Easting	541791
Commodities	Aggregate, Sand, Gravel	Deposit Types	B12 : Sand and Gravel
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage

Capsule Geology

The Strong Pit is located on Reserved Crown Land. It produces 25 millimetres Well Graded Base from a glaciofluvial outwash deposit. Technical data: Pit run; 5 per cent fines, 15 per cent sand and 80 per cent fine gravel. Petrography of the aggregate from the pit is 58 per cent vesicular volcanics, 17 per cent quartzite, 13 per cent meta-sediments, and 12 per cent diorite.

This pit is adjacent to or part of Prokoptz, 092GSE096.


Bibliography	ARMS 106 MTH District Pit 1506A MTH Provincial Pit 223