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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-May-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name CHIPKA CREEK Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G043
Status Showing NTS Map 082G06W
Latitude 049º 24' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 25' 13'' Northing 5473123
Easting 614615
Commodities Gypsum Deposit Types F04 : Bedded celestite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

A bed of streaky grey to black gypsum is exposed at Chipka Creek near Wardner. It is exposed over a width of about 12 metres as a bedded deposit in limestone within Upper Devonian Fairholme Group evaporitic sediments and limestones. A surface sample (weathered) assayed 10.2 per cent insolubles, 63.2 per cent CaSO4, 12.4 per cent CaCO3, 9.5 per cent MgCO3, 1 per cent Fe2O3+Al2O3, 1 per cent soda and 29.4 per cent total SO3.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1924-B187
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM 76, p. 53
GSC P 58-10, p. 40
EMPR PFD 752896

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