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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-1998 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name WALHACHIN LIMESTONE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I075
Status Showing NTS Map 092I14E
Latitude 050º 45' 30'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 02' 00'' Northing 5624795
Easting 638710
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Five lenses of limestone outcrop in the sides of a valley just southwest of Walhachin, 21.5 kilometres east of Cache Creek. The lenses are contained within a sequence of mafic volcanics, quartzite, argillite and greywacke of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

One 15 to 23-metre thick lens outcrops for 60 metres along the west side of the valley 750 metres due south of the Walhachin road bridge. The lens is composed of extensively fractured, dark grey limestone with inclusions of chert and dolomite. A 61-metre chip sample taken along the length of the lens analysed 52.40 per cent CaO, 0.61 per cent MgO, 3.76 per cent insolubles, 1.16 per cent R2O3, 0.37 per cent Fe2O3, 0.543 per cent MnO, 0.04 per cent P2O5, 0.03 per cent sulphur and 42.01 per cent ignition loss (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1958, page 92, Sample 12).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1958-92,93
EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271; 1987, pp. 417-419
EMPR OF 1988-30; 1990-23
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 262, pp. 29-31
GSC OF 165; 866; 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 69-23; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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