74806 082FSE071 082F2 Kyn1 Nelson MIKE, MIKE 1, MIKE 2, CRESTON AREA KYANITE 082F017 082F02E Showing 49° 08' 54'' 116° 39' 04'' 49.148333 -116.651111 11 5443785 525525 Kyanite Omineca Ancestral North America P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists Coarse-grained kyanite has been reported from the Creston area (McCammon, 1965) in Helikian Purcell Supergroup micaceous quartzites and mica schists with minor pegmatite. At the Mike occurrence, kyanite forms clean, bladed crystals in clumps 15 to 20 centimetres in diameter associated with the pegmatites, which occur as irregular masses 30 centimetres by 1 metre to 2 by 10 metres in size. Kyanite is also disseminated throughout the schists and micaceous quartzites, where crystals vary from small needles to 1 by 5 centimetres in size (McCammon, 1964). The Mike occurrence is close to the main Salmo-Creston highway, at low elevations, and near Creston. The best area of pegmatites and kyanite is found over an area 75 metres wide by 105 metres long. Further kyanite is reported on the south side of Summit Creek, across the valley from the Mike, by Brown et al. (Fieldwork 1994, page 138). EMPR AR *1964-185-186 EMPR FIELDWORK 1994, p. 138 EMPR OF 1988-26 GSC MAP 603A GSC MEM 228 GSC OF 929; 2721 EMPR PFD 841792