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File Created: 13-Sep-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name THIMBLE MOUNTAIN - EAST LENS Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E018
Status Showing NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 07' 22'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 31' 18'' Northing 5442219
Easting 388977
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

A limestone lens of the Middle Triassic Brooklyn Formation is exposed along the Thimble Mountain side road, 2.25 kilometres east-northeast of the road's conjunction with Highway 3, 2.5 kilometres southeast of Eholt. The lens continues southwestward across the west peak of Hardy Mountain for 1.2 kilometres. The deposit varies up to 400 metres in width.

The lens consists mostly of light grey, medium grained, well fractured limestone. Beds of cherty argillite occur in the limestone near the eastern margin of the deposit. A sample of chips taken at 3.0 metre intervals across the south end of the lens contained 38.29 per cent CaO, 0.91 per cent MgO, 25.62 per cent insolubles, 2.18 per cent R2O3, 1.76 per cent Fe2O3, 0.04 per cent MnO, 0.06 per cent P2O5, 0.04 per cent sulphur, 31.23 per cent ignition loss and 0.12 per cent water (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1960, p. 143, Sample 7).

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR AR 1960-141,143
EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)
EMPR OF 1990-25; 1992-18, p. 137
EMPR P 1986-2
EMPR PF (Map of limestone lenses northwest of Grand Forks - in General File)
EMPR PRELIM MAP 59
GSC MAP 828; 45-20A; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A
GSC OF 481; 637; 1969
GSC P 67-42; 79-29, pp. 14-17
EMPR PFD 996

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