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File Created: 20-Dec-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  20-Dec-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name AUGUST LAKE Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H048
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08W
Latitude 049º 26' 13'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 27' 45'' Northing 5479126
Easting 683961
Commodities Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types Q03 : Agate
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Scattered outcrops of white or cream-coloured moss agate are reported to occur in the valley containing August Lake and on the hillsides east and west of the lake, 4 to 6 kilometres southeast of Princeton. The area is underlain by volcanics of the Eocene Princeton Group and granodiorite of the Early Jurassic Bromley batholith.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 569A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 72-53, pp. 18-20; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
Bulletin of the Lapidary Rock and Mineral Society of B.C., *May, 1959
Western Homes and Living, Oct., 1961

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