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MINFILE No 092INE168

File Created:	29-Jan-1988	by	Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:	26-Jan-2003	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	RUB	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	092I058
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092I09W
Latitude	050º 31' 35''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 28' 34''	Northing	5600202
		Easting	678886
Commodities	Uranium	Deposit Types	B08 : Surficial U
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel


Capsule Geology	The Rub showing area is underlain by Jurassic granitic rocks and is located between McConnell and Stake lakes, about 18 kilometres south of Kamloops. A 1 hectare organic-rich basin is enriched in uranium. The 2.0 metre layer averages 0.01 per cent uranium, with a 0.5-metre thickness assaying 0.0138 per cent uranium (Culbert, R.R., 1979).

Bibliography

EMPR BULL 77

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

GSC OF 165; 551; 980; 2490

CIM BULL 1978, Vol.71, No.783, pp. 103-110

IAEA TECDOC 322 (Surficial Uranium Deposits, Technical Document, Vienna, 1984) pp. 179-191

*Culbert, R.R. (1979): Post-Glacial Uranium Concentration in South Central British Columbia, Royal Commission on Uranium Mining, Accession List #2109S01, 20 pages

*Culbert, R.R. and Leighton, D.G. (1988): Young Uranium; in Unconventional Uranium Deposits, Ore Geology Reviews, Vol. 3, pp. 313-330

EMPR PFD 673605