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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Jan-1989 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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NMI 093B15 Mn1
Name BLUESTONE CREEK Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093B096
Status Showing NTS Map 093B15W
Latitude 052º 59' 19'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 48' 19'' Northing 5871021
Easting 513071
Commodities Manganese Deposit Types J03 : Mn veins and replacements
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The Bluestone Creek manganese showing occurs in sedimentary rocks of the Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group. The area is largely obscured by younger sedimentary rocks and by Pleistocene glacial and fluvioglacial deposits.

The occurrence consists of psilomelane which occurs as fracture fillings within chert.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 12-1959; 1424A

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