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: 23-Dec-1994 by Z. Dan Hora (ZDH)
Last Edit:  10-Feb-1997 by Z. Dan Hora (ZDH)

Summary Help Help

NMI
Name PARADISE ROSE, MCNULTY CREEK, MCNULTY CREEK-WEST Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H060
Status Prospect NTS Map 092H09E
Latitude 049º 34' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 09' 04'' Northing 5494352
Easting 705987
Commodities Granite, Dimension Stone, Building Stone Deposit Types R03 : Dimension stone - granite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane
Capsule Geology

The Paradise Rose prospect is located about 36 kilometres west of Summerland.

Paradise Rose is a stone similar to Pacific Rose. It is a lighter colour, medium to coarse-grained pink and white quartz syenite of the Middle Jurassic Pennask batholith. Large boulders and massive outcrops form a northeast elongate hill. No dark inclusions were observed on scattered boulders or rock outcrops. There is no production record from this locality.

Paradise Rose stone is a bright pink and white quartz syenite. The rock is medium to coarse grained, both uniform in colour and texture. Major mineral constituents are pink orthoclase, white plagioclase and grey quartz. Small biotite crystals pepper the surface but only make up 5 per cent of the rock. Minor minerals are (clino?) zoisite, sphene, chlorite after biotite, hornblende, magnetite and pyrite.

The rock appears to be fairly fresh but, in thin section, plagioclase is moderately sericitized. Orthoclase has some microperthitic texture and some grains are glomeroporphyritic, trapping biotite and plagioclase. There are abundant cracks in crystals which can be seen on the polished face. The rock takes a high polish (8/10) but cracks are up to 0.5 millimetre deep and a few through-going fractures are present. There is some pitting at biotite grains and scattered flaking out of orthoclase fragments along cleavages intersecting with intracrystal cracks. There is no staining by pyrite or magnetite (less than 1 per cent combined) (Fieldwork 1994, pp.365-369).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELWORK *1994, pp.365-369
GSC MAP 1836A

COPYRIGHT | DISCLAIMER | PRIVACY | ACCESSIBILITY