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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Jan-1994 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name MABEL LAKE Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L057
Status Showing NTS Map 082L10E
Latitude 050º 35' 44'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 41' 48'' Northing 5606225
Easting 379917
Commodities Graphite Deposit Types P04 : Crystalline flake graphite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

On the east shore of Mabel Lake, bodies of metamorphosed limestone of the Precambrian-Paleozoic(?) Shuswap Metamorphic Complex are impregnated with graphite.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE (*Graphite Occurrences in British Columbia (1979), No. 8, J.W. McCammon - Ministry Library)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637
GSC SUM RPT 1931 Part A, p. 67
EMPR PFD 681568

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