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MINFILE No  092HSE009
File Created: 21-Dec-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  29-May-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name PRINCETON AGATE, VERMILLION BLUFFS Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H048
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07E
Latitude 049º 27' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 34' 52'' Northing 5481684
Easting 675272
Commodities Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types Q03 : Agate
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Agate occurs in andesite and basalt of the Eocene Princeton Group, in the upper part of Vermillion Bluffs, on the northeast side of the Tulameen River, 5 kilometres west of Princeton. The overlying Princeton Group sediments contain petrified wood.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 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., Aug. 1958
Western Homes and Living, Oct. 1961
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