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MINFILE No  092INW003
File Created: 24-Mar-1988 by Peter B. Reid (PBR)
Last Edit:  21-Jul-1997 by Peter B. Reid (PBR)

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Name GLEN FRASER, 17 MILE HOUSE Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092I081
Status Showing NTS Map 092I13W
Latitude 050º 49' 41'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 51' 51'' Northing 5631319
Easting 579994
Commodities Bentonite Deposit Types E06 : Bentonite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Methow
Capsule Geology

Bentonite is intercalated with brown, grey and maroon weathering, aphanitic volcanic breccias of the Eocene Kamloops Group. Exchangeable cation analyses yield in milli-equivalents per 100 grams, Ca 52.25, Mg 9.00, Na 31.75 and K 1.35. The cation exchange capacity (CEC) is 67.0.

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EMPR OF 1987-18; 1988-29
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 118, pp. 3,12,13,73,74; 262
GSC OF 165; 866; 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
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