MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092INW069

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	09-Sep-1998	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	BASQUE RANCH	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	092I064
Status	Prospect	NTS Map	092I11W
Latitude	050º 36' 30''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 20' 59''	Northing	5607571
		Easting	616768
Commodities	Gypsum	Deposit Types	F09 : Playa and Alkaline Lake Evaporites
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Cache Creek

Capsule Geology

A deposit of gypsite occurs on the ranch belonging to W.H. Hammond, known as the 'Basque Ranch', and located near Ashcroft. Mr. Hammond claims there is 90,710 tonnes of gypsite material. Mr. Hammond has placed several carload orders amongst the farmers of the district (Minister of Mines Annual Reports 1922, 1924).

Gypsite is an earthy variety of gypsum containing dirt and sand and is found as an efflorescent deposit occurring over the ledge outcrop of gypsum or of a gypsum-bearing stratum.

Rock in the vicinity appear to be Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex argillite and greenstone.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1922-N153; *1924-B157 EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271; 1996, pp. 117-123 GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989 GSC MEM 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 CANMET RPT 714, p. 70 Grette, J.F. (1978): Cache Creek and Nicola Groups near Ashcroft, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia