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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Feb-2003 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name CAMPBELL RANGE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I060
Status Showing NTS Map 092I09E
Latitude 050º 35' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 08' 04'' Northing 5607412
Easting 702854
Commodities Hydromagnesite Deposit Types F09 : Playa and Alkaline Lake Evaporites
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Campbell Range showing area is located near the contact between Jurassic granodiorite of the Wild Horse batholith to the west from Eocene Kamloops Group andesite and basalt to the east.

About 550 tonnes of white hydromagnesite is reported to be in a small, 75 metre diameter depression west of a rough road leading to Campbell Lake, about 16 kilometres southeast of Kamloops. One auger hole indicated a depth of about 90 centimetres of hydromagnesite while others intersected only sand and gravel. A typical analysis of this material is 41 per cent MgO, nil CaO, 1.15 per cent Al2O3, 0.25 per cent Fe2O3, 2.4 per cent insolubles and 54.2 per cent ignition loss (Bulletin 4).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL *4, p. 115
EMPR OF 1987-13
EMPR PF (Letter from W.M. Docker to Assistant Resident Mining Engineer, 1933)
EMPR FIELDWORK 2000, pp. 329-331
GSC MEM *249, p. 146
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
EMPR PFD 9918, 860894

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