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File Created: 27-Mar-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  24-Sep-2007 by Mandy N. Desautels (MND)

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NMI 092I6 SO1
Name SOAP LAKE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I034
Status Showing NTS Map 092I06W
Latitude 050º 22' 38'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 19' 15'' Northing 5581921
Easting 619394
Commodities Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Sulphate, Sodium Chloride Deposit Types F09 : Playa and Alkaline Lake Evaporites
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

Soap Lake is located 5 kilometres southeast of Spences Bridge in a northeast trending valley.

The area is underlain by Middle and Upper Cretaceous Kingsvale Group (redefined to the Spius Creek Formation of the Spences Bridge Group) mafic volcanics (Geological Survey of Canada Map 42-1989).

Salts are evidently leached from surrounding volanic rocks, carried into the basin by springs and concentrated there during dry summer seasons. No outlet is visible. A sample of brine taken in 1926 yielded 81.42 per cent sodium carbonate, 5.93 per cent sodium sulphate and 2.17 per cent sodium chloride (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 262).

Salt was not produced commercially but reported as being used locally. Ecological Reserve 3 presently includes Soap Lake (see claim map 92I 06W).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1922-N155
EMPR BULL 4, p. 32
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; *42-1989
GSC MEM *262, pp. 213,214
GSC OF 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 81-1A, pp. 185-189; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
EMPR PFD 507260, 507261

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