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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Dec-1999 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI 082F16 Gem1
Name WHITE CREEK Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F099
Status Showing NTS Map 082F16W
Latitude 049º 54' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 20' 04'' Northing 5527725
Easting 547797
Commodities Beryl Deposit Types O01 : Rare element pegmatite - LCT family
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

Small amounts of blue-green beryl occur locally with black tourmaline in pegmatite. The showing occurs in the contact area of a Cretaceous intrusion (the White Creek Batholith) consisting of granite, granodiorite and monzonite and Middle Proterozoic Aldridge Formation wacke and siltstone (Purcell Supergroup).

Bibliography
GSC P60-21, p. 11
GSC MEM 228, p. 33; 292, pp. 43,44
GSC MAP 1045A-M2 NO.8
EMPR PFD 502722, 827911, 827925

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