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File Created: 31-Mar-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  20-Mar-1991 by Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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NMI
Name GYPSUM Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I044
Status Showing NTS Map 092I06W
Latitude 050º 29' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 16' 54'' Northing 5594215
Easting 621895
Commodities Gypsum Deposit Types F09 : Playa and Alkaline Lake Evaporites
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The location of the Gypsum showing is described only as near the mouth of the Inkikuh Creek, a tributary of the Thompson River.

Gypsum nodules and widely spaced selenite stringers occur in silicified and pyritized Carboniferous-Jurassic Cache Creek Complex (Group) metasediments close to the contact with the Early Jurassic- Late Triassic Guichon Creek batholith. These metasediments could be Upper Triassic Nicola Group rocks (see Geological Survey of Canada Map 42-1989).

The gypsum is reported to be now caved and buried in slide material. The highest assay, obtained in 1941, was 21.48 per cent gypsum (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 262).

Bibliography
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; *42-1989
GSC MEM *262, p. 110
GSC P 46-8; 47-10

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