MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092ISW092

File Created:	03-Sep-1987	by	Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:	20-Feb-1991	by	Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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		NMI
Name	LYTTON BAR	Mining Division	Kamloops
		BCGS Map	092I023
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092I04E
Latitude	050º 14' 58''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 35' 46''	Northing	5567309
		Easting	600089
Commodities	Uranium	Deposit Types	C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Lytton Bar showing is located in the Lytton Bar black sands on the west side of the Fraser River, 1.6 kilometres north of the Fraser and Thompson rivers confluence.

The black sands are radioactive. A concentrate assayed 0.16 per cent equivalent uranium oxide (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1948). Uraninite is the likely source of radioactivity (Geological Survey of Canada Economic Geology 16).


Bibliography	EMPR AR *1948-180 EMPR MAP 22; 39 EMPR OF 1990-32 GSC EC GEOL 16, p. 45; 16 (Rev.), p. 234 GSC MAP 1010A; 42-1989 GSC MEM 262 GSC OF 551; 980 GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 81-1A, pp.185-189; 85-1A, pp. 349-358