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MINFILE No  092HNE181
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Jul-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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Name ASPEN GROVE AGATE Mining Division Nicola
BCGS Map 092H098
Status Showing NTS Map 092H15E
Latitude 049º 56' 47'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 35' 41'' Northing 5535443
Easting 672562
Commodities Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types Q03 : Agate
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Aspen Grove Agate showing outcrops along a logging road, 2.6 kilometres east-northeast of Aspen Grove and 1.7 kilometres south-southwest of the south end of Tule Lake.

A deposit of massive agate occurs in fine-grained diorite (possibly recrystallized volcanic) in the Central belt of the Nicola Group (Bulletin 69).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 69
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, pp. 14-16
EMPR IND MIN FILE (Hora, Z.D. (1979): Agate, Jasper, Opal and Sodalite Occurrences in British Columbia, page 4 (in Ministry Library))
EMPR MAP 10 (1973); 15 (1974)
EMPR P 1981-2
GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC OF 2167, pp. 93-98
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 16, pp. 1658-1672 (1979); Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)
*Bulletin of the Lapidary Rock and Mineral Society of B.C., Aug., 1958
*Western Homes & Living, Oct. 1961
Placer Dome File
EMPR PFD 20880, 861086, 861087, 861088, 861089, 861090, 861091, 861092, 861094, 861095, 861099
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