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File Created: 08-Aug-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  28-Feb-2003 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name RAYLEIGH NORTH Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I089
Status Showing NTS Map 092I16W
Latitude 050º 49' 34'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 17' 03'' Northing 5634003
Easting 691266
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

A 30-metre thick lens of limestone outcrops along a roadcut on Highway 5 and continues eastward for 300 metres, 1.3 kilometres north-northeast of Rayleigh Station and 17 kilometres north of the community of Kamloops . The limestone is hosted in a sequence of interbedded chert pebble conglomerate and chert arenite with minor augite/hornblende porphyry of the Carboniferous to Triassic Nicola and/or Harper Ranch groups. Bedding strikes 065 degrees and dips 80 degrees northwest. The lens is composed of grey, medium-grained limestone containing nodules and patches of chert and veinlets of calcite.

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

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