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MINFILE No  092INW092
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 WEST BLUE RIDGE, BLUE RIDGE RANCH Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092I081
Status Showing NTS Map 092I13W
Latitude 050º 53' 37'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 53' 27'' Northing 5638580
Easting 578007
Commodities Bentonite Deposit Types E06 : Bentonite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Methow
Capsule Geology

At the West Blue Ridge showing, bentonite-rich layers occur in a sequence of brown, maroon and grey-weathering aphanitic volcanic breccias and cream-weathering acid tephra of the Eocene Kamloops Group.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271; *1987, pp. 411-415
EMPR OF 1987-18; 1988-29
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
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