MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092ISW047

File Created:	27-Mar-1987	by	Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:	06-Feb-1991	by	Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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		NMI
Name	SPENCES BRIDGE	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	092I034
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092I06W
Latitude	050º 23' 08''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 22' 14''	Northing	5582769
		Easting	615838
Commodities	Coal	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage

Capsule Geology

The Spences Bridge Coal showing is located in a dry gully 4.2 kilometres directly southwest of Spences Bridge.

A stratabound lignite seam, 30 by 2 metres, outcrops in a partly consolidated sandstone bed of very limited extent within Middle and Upper Cretaceous Kingsvale Group mafic volcanics. The Kingsvale Group has been redefined to the Spius Creek Formation of the Spences Bridge Group (Geological Survey of Canada Map 42-1989).

Two short adits were reported in 1952. No other information is available.


Bibliography	GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989 GSC MEM *262, p. 110 GSC OF 980 GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 81-IA, pp. 185-189; 85-1A, pp. 349-358