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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-May-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name SERPENTINE CREEK, DEASE LAKE Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I051
Status Showing NTS Map 104I12W
Latitude 058º 32' 54'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 59' 35'' Northing 6490188
Easting 442203
Commodities Asbestos Deposit Types M06 : Ultramafic-hosted asbestos
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The Serpentine Creek showing is located about 12 kilometres north-northeast of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by upper Mississippian to Permian ultramafic rocks of the Cache Creek Complex. This asbestos occurrence is documented in an old federal government mineral resource file and virtually nothing is known of it. It can be certain that the asbestos mineral occurs in ultramafic rocks of the Cache Creek Complex. These rocks consist of peridotite, dunite and pyroxenite which are often altered to serpentinite.

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1995-25; 1996-11
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27
EMR MRB MRF *216, 1968
EMPR PFD 882294

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