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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 CLINTON MANGANESE #4, OLSON Mining Division Clinton
BCGS Map 092P002
Status Showing NTS Map 092P04E
Latitude 051º 04' 09'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 39' 20'' Northing 5658376
Easting 594197
Commodities Manganese Deposit Types F01 : Sedimentary Mn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The Clinton Manganese #4 occurrence is located approximately 5.6 kilometres southwest of Clinton. It is just west of the B.C. Rail track on a small ridge that trends about 350 degrees. The showings trend along the ridge for about 100 metres, about 125 metres abovbe the track.

GSC Map 1278A (Memoir 363) shows the area to be underlain by massive limestone, limestone breccia and chert with minor argillite, tuff, and andesitic and basaltic flows of the Marble Canyon Formation of the Permian to Triassic Cache Creek Complex.

EMPR Minister of Mines Annual Report (1948, page A91) states that lithologies in the vicinity are largely grey and grey-green quartzose schists with interlayers of white, pink and red cherty layers. The strata strike 335 degrees, dipping 45 degrees southwest. A stratigraphic thickness of about 15 metres is exposed on the ridge, with secondary manganese oxides deposited on fracture surfaces. Although it could not be positively identified, rhodonite was suspected as the primary manganese mineral. Although most of the ridge is estimated to assay about 0.75% manganese, a 3 metre open-cut at the north end of the exposure containing "well mineralised" rock, with pyrolusite in vertical stringers to 2 centimetres wide. A 3.1 metre sample assayed 15.8% manganese.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1948-A91
Manganese Occurrences IN B.C., H. Sargent, Unpublished Paper given in Mexico, 1956
GSC MEM 363
GSC MAP 1278A

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