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MINFILE No  082M 177
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Dec-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name DEATH RAPIDS, PRIEST RAPIDS Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082M058
Status Showing NTS Map 082M07E, 082M08W, 082M10E
Latitude 051º 30' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 30' 34'' Northing 5706509
Easting 395228
Commodities Kyanite Deposit Types P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Monashee
Capsule Geology

The showing is located within the Downie Slide on the west slope of the Columbia River valley. The slide mass is composed of pelitic and semipelitic schists that lie on the northeastern flank of the Frenchman Cap gneiss dome in the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex.

Kyanite crystals occur in quartz veins and pegmatites and sections of the schists over a length of 300 metres along the river.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1931-148,149; 1933-211; *1947-215; 1952-A258
EMPR MAP 43
EMPR OF 1988-26, p. 12, Fig. 4
GSC MAP 12-1964
GSC OF 637
GSC P 64-32; 84-13, p. 9
CANMET IR *736, pp. 238-240
CJES v. 17, No. 6, pp. 698-709 (Brown, R.L., and Psutka, J.F., 1980)
EMPR PFD 860905
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