MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092P 143

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	24-Feb-2003	by	Ron McMillan (RHM)

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		NMI
Name	MOUNT SOUES	Mining Division	Clinton
		BCGS Map	092P002
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092P04E
Latitude	051º 01' 47''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 43' 20''	Northing	5653907
		Easting	589602
Commodities	Asbestos	Deposit Types	M06 : Ultramafic-hosted asbestos
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Cache Creek

Capsule Geology

The Mount Soues chrysotile (asbestos) occurence is located "in the southern base of Mount Soues, near Junction Valley" (GSC Annual Report 1894, page 345). The location appears to be about 11 kilometres southwest of Clinton, above the B.C. Rail tracks.

At this location, bedrock is mapped (GSC Map 1278A) as argillite, basaltic flows, tuff, chert and limestone of the Permian to Triassic Cache Creek Complex. Serpentine and other ultramafic rocks are known to be associated with the Cache Creek Complex rocks at other locations, and could be present in this area.

There is no information on the deposit other than "small veins of chrysotile or serpentine asbestos have been observed in or near some of the deposits of serpentine in ... the Cache Creek rocks" (GSC Annual Report 1896, page 345).


Bibliography	EMPR OF 1995-25 GSC ANN RPT 1894-345 GSC MEM 363-89 GSC MAP 1278A