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File Created: 20-Jun-1997 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  20-Jun-1997 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name LILLOOET TRAVERTINE Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092I051
Status Showing NTS Map 092I12W
Latitude 050º 34' 23'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 48' 34'' Northing 5603025
Easting 584304
Commodities Travertine Deposit Types H01 : Travertine
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Methow, Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

Travertine occurs along Highway 12 about 17 kilometres south-southeast of Lillooet. The Department of Highways loosened up much of the deposit during road work and dumped the rocks over the side of the road where it may be collected in convenient sizes. Some fine material remains in place in the rockcut, but a ladder and chisel would be needed to reach and collect it. The locality is easily found, being marked by a very large talus slide just south of the exposure and a widening of the highway at an access road marked Walter Fredriksen - a private house on the lower side of the road (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 72-53, page 63).

Geological Survey of Canada Map 42-1989 indicates this area is underlain by Jurassic-Cretaceous Relay Mountain Group sediments.

Bibliography
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. 33,63; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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