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File Created: 25-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)
Last Edit:  12-Feb-1991 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 082J4 Gyp1
Name BEAVER (LUSSIER SOUTH), BEAVER, LUSSIER SOUTH, SQ Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082J003
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082J04E
Latitude 050º 02' 15'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 31' 04'' Northing 5543853
Easting 606142
Commodities Gypsum Deposit Types F04 : Bedded celestite
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Beaver (Lussier South) quarry is located 1025 metres south of the presently producing Lussier quarry (082JSW009), on the east side of the Lussier River, 4 kilometres south of its confluence with Coyote Creek and 24 kilometres southeast from the village of Canal Flats. There has been some minor production from this quarry but no figures are available.

Refer to the Lussier deposit (082JSW009) for detailed regional geology on the Lussier River - Coyote Creek area.

Gypsum of the Devonian Burnais Formation is exposed along the quarry walls across a width of 80 metres. It is laminated to thin-bedded, pale grey to grey with some dark laminae present. At the south end of the outcrop numerous faults and some brecciated gypsum is present. Minor amounts of selenite, as blebs and stringers, occur throughout. Trace to minor amounts of native sulphur, dolomite, quartz, anhydrite were also observed. Trace amounts of albite, chlorite and syngenite, a hydrous, calcium- potassium sulphate salt, were identified by x-ray diffraction study (Open File 1991-15). A high salt content in the deposit caused cessation of production.

Georgia Pacific Canada Inc. holds the property.

Bibliography
EM EXPL 1999-40-52
EMPR AR 1968-308
EMPR ASS RPT 10764
EMPR BULL 35
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 497-506
EMPR OF *1991-15
GSC BULL 146
GSC MAP 24-1958; 11-1960
GSC MEM 336
GSC OF 481; 634
GSC P 54-7

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