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MINFILE No  092ISW085
File Created: 31-Mar-1987 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  08-Feb-1991 by Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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NMI
Name KANAKA BAR GEMS Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I013
Status Showing NTS Map 092I04E
Latitude 050º 07' 11'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 34' 17'' Northing 5552919
Easting 602128
Commodities Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

Agate is reported to occur in the Kanaka Bar gravels. Source rocks are probably Middle and Upper Cretaceous Spences Bridge Group volcanics to the north in which several agate localities are known.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 1010A; 42-1989
GSC P 46-8; 47-10; *72-53, pp. 32,33
Canadian Rockhound *Nov. 1964
EMPR PFD 8650, 820324
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