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File Created: 30-Mar-1988 by Jennifer W. Pell (JP)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name FRASER RIVER Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092H044
Status Showing NTS Map 092H06W
Latitude 049º 26' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 23' 05'' Northing 5478705
Easting 617076
Commodities Garnet Deposit Types P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Pelitic gneisses exposed in the Fraser River valley between Hope and Yale, belong to the Cretaceous and/or Tertiary Custer Gneiss. They locally contain from 3 to 25 per cent almandine, 0 to 8 per cent kyanite and 0 to 10 per cent sillimanite (Read, 1960).

Bibliography
EMPR OF *1988-26
*Read, P.B. (1960): The Geology of the Fraser Valley Between Hope and Emory Creek, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, p. 145
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