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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Jan-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name TULAMEEN GYPSUM, NANCY Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H047
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07E, 092H10E
Latitude 049º 29' 58'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 39' 12'' Northing 5485626
Easting 669911
Commodities Gypsum Deposit Types B07 : Bog Fe, Mn, U, Cu, Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Tulameen Gypsum occurrence outcrops along the northeast bank of the Tulameen River, in the vicinity of the Princeton-Tulameen road and the Kettle Valley railway, about 1.6 kilometres downstream from Granite Creek.

The showing is comprised of a number of small, discontinuous deposits of powdery or solid gypsum. The gypsum is deposited on boulder clay, gravel or slide rock as a precipitate of Recent age. Some of the material is quite pure, while some is mixed with clay and gravel. Trenching on the various deposits has encountered thicknesses of 1.2 to 3.0 metres. The largest deposit covers an area 120 metres long and 30 metres wide, with a thickness of about 1.8 metres.

A few tonnes of gypsum were shipped to a cement plant in Princeton in 1913.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1913-240; 1915-249; *1923-188
GSC MAP 888A; 889A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243, p. 132
CANMET RPT *714, pp. 70,71

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