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MINFILE No  092HSW132
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  02-Aug-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name MOUNT COULTER Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H024
Status Showing NTS Map 092H06W
Latitude 049º 17' 40'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 17' 04'' Northing 5461604
Easting 624736
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

A limestone bed folded into a northwest-trending syncline, outcrops as a U-shaped band with limbs up to 9 kilometres long on Mount Coulter, west of Nicolum Creek, 14 kilometres southwest of Hope. The limestone is contained within a sequence of mafic volcanics and chert of the Permian to Jurassic Hozameen Complex.

Bibliography
EMPR IND MIN FILE ("Limestone Occurrences in British Columbia" by McCammon, J.W. 1973, p. 14 (in Ministry Library))
GSC MAP 12-1969; 737A
GSC P 69-47, p. 4
EMPR PFD 821045, 820960
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