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File Created: 26-Mar-1998 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  27-Mar-1998 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name THOMPSON RIVER Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I054
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092I11W
Latitude 050º 35' 12'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 18' 43'' Northing 5605222
Easting 619496
Commodities Gold Deposit Types C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Intermittent placer production has been recorded from the Thompson River between the period 1884 to 1945. From 1884 to 1887 production from Thompson River is combined with production from the part of the Fraser River that is in the New Westminster Mining Division (Bulletin 28, pages 40,42).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL *28, pp. 37,38,40
EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 262
GSC OF 165; 866; 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10; *72-53, pp. 26,73; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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