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MINFILE No  092INE171
File Created: 22-Apr-1988 by Peter B. Reid (PBR)
Last Edit:  18-Sep-2001 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name GORGE CREEK DIATOMITE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I096
Status Showing NTS Map 092I15W
Latitude 050º 58' 13'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 58' 47'' Northing 5648463
Easting 641847
Commodities Diatomite Deposit Types F06 : Lacustrine diatomite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

North of the junction of Gorge Creek and Deadman River, float of diatomaceous earth occurs in roadcuts. It must subcrop between the roadcuts at 1010 metres elevation and the base of the overlying olivine basalt flows at 1110 metres elevation (Fieldwork 1987). Hostrocks are sediments of the Miocene Deadman River Formation (Chilcotin Group).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK *1987, pp. 417-419
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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