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File Created:	14-May-1986	by	Eileen Van der Flier Keller (EVFK)
Last Edit:	15-Aug-1989	by	Wim S. Vanderpoll (WV)

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		NMI
Name	WOLF MOUNTAIN	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092F020
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	092F01E
Latitude	049º 08' 47''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	124º 01' 40''	Northing	5444238
		Easting	425047
Commodities	Coal	Deposit Types	A04 : Bituminous coal
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage

Capsule Geology

The Wolf Mountain deposit is underlain by the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group (Extension Formation). The main Wellington coal seam, in the Early Campanian Northfield Member, is of high volatile bituminous rank and was mined at Wolf Mountain. Seam thickness is variable. Rolls, small faults, shale partings and other irregularities are common. Refer to Bebans mine (092GSW026) for a detailed description of the Wellington seam.

The seam occurs in a northwest trending synclinal structure near the base of the formation and is underlain by sandstone and overlain by shale and fine conglomerate.

Measured resources are 3.16 million tonnes of total in-situ coal from seam W.1 (Coal Assessment Report 177).

Wolf Mountain produced 83,900 tonnes of thermal coal from 1982 to 1986.

Bibliography

EMPR BULL 37

EMPR COAL ASS RPT 177, 703, 708

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 441-450; 1988, pp. 553-558

EMPR IR 1986-1, p. 104

EMPR MAP 65 (1989)

EMPR MIN STATS 1985, p. 42

EMPR MINING 1981-1985, p. 78; 1986-1987, p. 76

EMPR OF 1988-24; 1989-6; 1992-1

EMPR P 1987-1, p. 223; 1988-1, p. 81; 1989-1, p. 61

EMPR PF (2 reports, Nanaimo Coal Project by Norecol Environmental Consultants)

GSC MAP 27-1963; 49-1963; 17-1968; 1386A

GSC OF 9; 61; *463; *1272

GSC P 47-22; 66-1; 68-50; 79-30; 89-4; 89-1E, p. 197

GSC SUM RPT 1911

CIM Transactions No.50, 1947

EMPR PFD 7582, 202151, 248028, 753045, 753046, 753047, 752984, 752991