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MINFILE No  093O 024
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Aug-2015 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name CRASSIER CREEK Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 093O069
Status Showing NTS Map 093O09W
Latitude 055º 38' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 17' 19'' Northing 6165501
Easting 544786
Commodities Bentonite Deposit Types E06 : Bentonite
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Crassier Creek occurrence lies above Crassier Creek, 5 kilometres north of Pine River and 63 kilometres northeast of the town of Mackenzie.

A 3-centimetre seam of bentonite, in several hundred metres of Cretaceous Moosebar Formation (Fort St. John Group) shale and sandstone, was reported (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 43-13). A detailed description was not given.
Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1991, pp. 433-440
EMPR OF 1993-22; 2006-13
GSC BULL 328
GSC MEM 259, p. 74
GSC OF 925; 1032
GSC P 43-13, pp. 3-4; 85-28
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