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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Feb-2003 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name BLACK PINES NORTH Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I099
Status Showing NTS Map 092I16W
Latitude 050º 59' 12'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 16' 23'' Northing 5651882
Easting 691388
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Harper Ranch, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Two northeast trending, parallel limestone lenses 770 metres apart, each 1.8 kilometres long, outcrop as two cliffs along the east flank of Jamieson Range, 35 kilometres north of the community of Kamloops. The lenses are hosted in a succession of argillite, quartzite and mafic volcanics of the Carboniferous to Triassic Harper Ranch and/or Nicola groups.

The two lenses are made up of light grey to white, medium to fine-grained limestone with scattered patches of chert. A sample taken along the base of the bluff of the northern lens for 152 metres analysed 54.54 per cent CaO, 0.08 per cent MgO, 1.70 per cent insolubles, 0.18 per cent R2O3, 0.10 per cent Fe2O3, 0.025 per cent MnO, 0.017 per cent P2O5, nil sulphur and 43.28 per cent ignition loss (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1959, page 170, Sample 6).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1959-167-170
EMPR OF 1992-18
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 249, p. 7
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC P 44-20; 79-1A, pp. 357-360; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CANMET RPT 811, Part 5, p. 216
EMPR PFD 889476

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