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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Oct-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name SPILLIMACHEEN Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082K099
Status Showing NTS Map 082K16W
Latitude 050º 55' 08'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 22' 36'' Northing 5640990
Easting 543815
Commodities Dolomite Deposit Types R10 : Dolomite
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

Dolomite of the Ordovician to Silurian Beaverfoot Formation outcrops just south of Cedared Creek, 3.2 kilometres northwest of Spillimacheen. The dolomite continues to outcrop southeastward along the mountainside for 8.75 kilometres on the west limb of the Kindersley Creek Anticline. The underlying Ordovician Mount Wilson Quartzite outcrops to the east. The strata generally strike 138 degrees and dip 75 degrees southwest.

The deposit is comprised of nearly white weathering, brownish grey, thickly bedded, fine grained dolomite, with some beds of brown weathering, brecciated dolomite cemented in part by white calcite. A sample of the white weathering dolomite from the base of the mountain contained 30.91 per cent CaO, 21.54 per cent MgO, 0.74 per cent SiO2, 0.25 per cent Al2O3, 0.50 per cent Fe2O3 and 0.02 per cent sulphur (Canada Bureau of Mines Report 811, page 214, Sample 87).

Bibliography
GSC MAP 12-1957; 1320A
GSC MEM 369, pp. 51-53
GSC OF 481
CANMET RPT *811, Part 5, pp. 213,214
EMPR PFD 503382

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