MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092HSE223

File Created:	18-Feb-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	01-Jan-0001	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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		NMI
Name	SIMILKAMEEN COAL 2	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H038
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H07E
Latitude	049º 23' 13''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 32' 55''	Northing	5473362
		Easting	677899
Commodities	Coal	Deposit Types	A03 : Sub-bituminous coal
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Similkameen Coal 2 showing is on the west bank of the Similkameen River, 8 kilometres southwest of Princeton.

This coal occurrence is near the southeastern margin of the Princeton Basin, a northerly trending fault-bounded trough filled by Eocene volcanic rocks of mainly intermediate composition, comprising the Lower Volcanic Formation, and an overlying Eocene sedimentary sequence of sandstone, shale, waterlain rhyolite tephra (tuff) and coal, up to 2000 metres thick, comprising the Allenby Formation.

A coal seam, up to 1.22 metres thick, is exposed 100 metres west of the river. The seam strikes 174 degrees and dips 16 degrees west. It is overlain by sandstone and coaly shale and underlain by sandstone and shale.

Bibliography

EMPR COAL ASS RPT 180, 184, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 839

EMPR INF CIRC 1989-22, pp. 14,19

EMPR OF 1987-19

EMPR P *1983-3; 1986-3, pp. 28,29

GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989

GSC MEM 59, pp. 110,111; 69, pp. 254-262; 243

GSC P 52-12; 85-1A, pp. 349-358; 89-4, p. 43

CIM Trans. Vol. L, pp. 665-676 (1947)

CSPG BULL Vol. 13, pp. 271-279 (1965)

Hills, L.V. (1965): Palynology and Age of Early Tertiary Basins, Interior of British Columbia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta