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File Created: 15-Feb-1988 by Steve B. Butrenchuk (SBB)
Last Edit:  23-May-2023 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI
Name MEOSIN MOUNTAIN SOUTH, PERMIAN, MEOSIN Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 093I029
Status Showing NTS Map 093I08W
Latitude 054º 16' 30'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 18' 55'' Northing 6017445
Easting 674800
Commodities Phosphate Deposit Types F07 : Upwelling-type phosphate
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Meosin Mountain South showing is located approximately 165 kilometres east-northeast of Prince George. The showing is 21 kilometres west of the British Columbia–Alberta border, in the Liard Mining Division.

The region is underlain by an assemblage of sedimentary rocks consisting mainly of continental margin and shelf facies rocks. This assemblage was deposited on and to the west of the Ancestral North American craton. These sedimentary rocks, for the most part typical continental shelf slope and basin facies, range in age from Hadrynian to Upper Cretaceous. Structurally these rocks are part of the Foreland thrust and fold belt of the North American Cordillera.

In this region phosphatic beds are commonly found in upper Paleozoic to lower Mesozoic rocks. These are exposed to the west of a major thrust fault that has thrust these rocks over younger, mainly Cretaceous, strata. The Cretaceous strata are exposed to the east.

Several very thin phosphatic siltstone or calcareous siltstone and arenaceous limestone occur throughout the Whistler member of the Sulphur Mountain Formation (Spray River Group). Phosphatic intervals are 0.5 to 1.0 metres thick. Phosphate is present as fluorapatite in pellets or, rarely, in nodules. Phosphate values of 6.86 and 4.35 per cent phosphorus pentoxide were obtained across widths of 50 centimetres. Sample SB 87-6 yielded phosphate values of up to 23.64 per cent phosphorus pentoxide (Fieldwork 1987; Assessment Report 30718).

Also, at the top of the Permian Mowitch Formation is a siltstone bed, 1 metre or less thick, that contains 35 to 50 per cent phosphate nodules. A sample from this bed contained 18.96 per cent phosphorus pentoxide (Personal Communication, S. Butrenchuk, 1988).

In 2013, an airphoto interpretation study was undertaken to delineate bedding trends of favourable phosphorite horizons. The area investigated extends approximately 127 kilometres from Meosin Mountain in the southwest, to Mount Pallson in the northwest.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *30718, 34629
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 396-410
GSC MAP 1424A; 1869A
GSC P 71-30

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