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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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Name WESTWOLD, ANNIS INDUSTRIES, MONTE LAKE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L041
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082L05W
Latitude 050º 26' 54'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 49' 13'' Northing 5592281
Easting 299780
Commodities Marble, Dimension Stone, Building Stone, Aggregate Deposit Types R04 : Dimension stone - marble
R09 : Limestone
R15 : Crushed rock
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Westwold showing is located 19 kilometres west of Falkland, southwest of Westwold.

In this area, sedimentary rocks of the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group are in probable unconformable contact with Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Triassic to Jurassic granitic rocks of the Klotassin intrusions intrude the Harper Ranch and Nicola groups. Extensive Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic rocks cap the older rocks.

The Harper Ranch includes a Permian limestone, contact metamorphosed to marble, which has been quarried for industrial use. The 2000-metre long, 75-metre wide massive marble is in contact with granodiorite to the north and grades into a skarn zone of to the south at the Kenallan prospect (082LSW045). The marble is white, medium to coarse-grained and has abundant fractures at 10 to 40-centimetre spacings. Sampling in 1968 returned 54.8 per cent CaO, 0.47 per cent MgO, 0.07 per cent Fe2O3 and insolubles at 0.85 per cent (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1968, page 322).

The deposit was put into production in 1968 by Annis Industries Ltd. and up to 1970 produced 4810 tonnes of marble for stucco dash, roof rock, riprap and driveway rock.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1967-309; *1968-322
EMPR ASS RPT 9972
EMPR FIELDWORK 1982, pp. 89-92; 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363
EMPR GEM 1969-398
EMPR MAP 5214G, 7216G
EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30, 1992-18, p. 81, 82
EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966)
EMPR RGS 1976
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 637 (Maps B,C), 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60

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