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MINFILE No  082LSW078
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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NMI
Name WHITEROCK Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L045
Status Showing NTS Map 082L06E
Latitude 050º 25' 15'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 03' 48'' Northing 5587457
Easting 353428
Commodities Silica Deposit Types O04 : Feldspar-quartz pegmatite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Whiterock showing is located 10 kilometres east-southeast of Armstrong, near the headwaters of Fortune Creek.

In this area, Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks are faulted over metasedimentary rocks of the Proterozoic Silver Creek Formation.

A small plug-shaped quartz body intrudes argillaceous Nicola Group sediments.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363
EMPR MAP 7216G, 8513G
EMPR OF 1978-15, p. 45; 1989-5; 1990-30
EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966)
EMPR RGS 1976
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60
EMPR PFD 681568
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