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MINFILE No  082ESE234
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 - WEST LENS Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E018
Status Showing NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 07' 55'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 32' 06'' Northing 5443258
Easting 388025
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

A lens of coarse grained, light grey, thick bedded limestone of the Middle Triassic Brooklyn Formation outcrops along the Thimble Mountain side road, 600 metres east-northeast of the road's conjunction with Highway 3, 2.75 kilometres south-southeast of Eholt. The lens continues southward for 800 metres with a width of between 30 and 60 metres.

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR AR 1969-141
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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