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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Feb-2003 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name VALLEYVIEW, KAMLOOPS Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I069
Status Showing NTS Map 092I09W
Latitude 050º 40' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 16' 04'' Northing 5616320
Easting 693075
Commodities Clay Deposit Types B06 : Fireclay
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

Parts of the white silts along the Thompson Valley were used for common brick. A sample taken from a 0.9 metre thick bed of clay at road level from the banks on the cliffs below a communications tower site, south of the subdivision of Valleyview, indicated that the clay did not have value as a raw material for ceramic products. Bedrock geology consists of argillite, sandstone and tuff of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1949-249
EMPR BULL 77
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 249
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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