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File Created: 30-Mar-1988 by Jennifer W. Pell (JP)
Last Edit:  19-Mar-1992 by Dave Nelles (DMN)

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NMI
Name YALE CREEK Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H053
Status Showing NTS Map 092H11W, 092H12E
Latitude 049º 33' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 30' 05'' Northing 5491500
Easting 608362
Commodities Sillimanite Deposit Types P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Shuksan
Capsule Geology

North of Yale Creek, pelitic units within the Mesozoic Settler Schist contain up to 15 per cent sillimanite, up to 11 per cent garnet and a few per cent of kyanite (Bartholomew, 1979).

Bibliography
EMPR OF *1988-26
GSC MAP 737A; 12-1969; 41-1989
GSC P 69-47
*Bartholomew, P.R. (1979): Geology and Metamorphism of the Yale Creek Area, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, p. 105
Pigage, L.C. (1973): Metamorphism southwest of Yale, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, p. 95

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