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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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Name WILLIAMS LAKE Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093B010
Status Showing NTS Map 093B01E
Latitude 052º 05' 30'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 10' 35'' Northing 5771554
Easting 556425
Commodities Clay Deposit Types B06 : Fireclay
E07 : Sedimentary kaolin
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by poorly exposed rocks of the Mississ- ippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group which, in the region, consists mainly of mafic metavolcanic rocks, argillaceous metasediments and ultramafic bodies, now sheared and altered. Overlying the Cache Creek Group are Miocene plateau basalt and Pleistocene till.

The showing consists of a residual clay deposit from altered argillite in road cuts. The clay is of cone 19 and although it burns white, it lacks plasticity and, therefore, is of doubtful ceramic value.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 30, p. 59
EMPR PF (Test of Clay sample - Williams Lake area, 1922)
GSC MAP 12-1959; 1424A
EMPR PFD 14229

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