MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092HSE208

File Created:	08-Feb-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	14-Apr-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI	092H7 Bnt
Name	EAST BENTONITE	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H048
Status	Prospect	NTS Map	092H07E
Latitude	049º 26' 58''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 30' 05''	Northing	5480422
		Easting	681096
Commodities	Bentonite	Deposit Types	E06 : Bentonite
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

A bentonite seam outcrops 150 metres southeast of the Princeton- Copper Mountain road, 0.6 kilometre southeast of the Similkameen River, about 0.5 kilometre east of the Princeton Bentonite deposit (092HSE151).

The seam is hosted in tuffaceous, arkosic wacke of the Eocene Allenby Formation (Princeton Group). The bed is 1.8 metres thick and composed of light yellow clay. The deposit dips gently south.

A short adit was excavated some time prior to 1924.


Bibliography	EMPR BULL 30, pp. 33-35 EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 247-254 EMPR OF 1987-19 EMPR P 1983-3, pp. 19-21 GSC MAP 41-1989; 888A; 1386A GSC MEM 243 GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358 CANMET RPT 626, pp. 7-10