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MINFILE No  082LNE030
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  29-Dec-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name QUEEST MOUNTAIN Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L096
Status Showing NTS Map 082L15W
Latitude 050º 58' 48'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 53' 45'' Northing 5649312
Easting 366918
Commodities Kyanite Deposit Types P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

In this area, Hadrynian(?) to Paleozoic rocks of the Eagle Bay Assemblage (Formation) consist mainly of metasedimentary strata. In the Queest Mountain area east of Shuswap Lake, kyanite prisms, 0.5 to 2.5 centimetres in length, are relatively common in schists, and sillimanite is absent.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 49-54
EMPR OF 1988-13; *1988-26; 1990-30
GSC MAP 143A; 1059A
GSC MEM 296, p. 16
GSC OF 481; 637
EMPR PFD 822544, 823640
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