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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Jul-2007 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI 092I10 Dtm1
Name GUICHON CREEK Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I056
Status Showing NTS Map 092I10W
Latitude 050º 34' 00'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 52' 09'' Northing 5603806
Easting 650901
Commodities Diatomite Deposit Types F06 : Lacustrine diatomite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

Diatomite occurs in a meadow located just east of Guichon Creek about 4 kilometres south of Tunkwa Lake. The diatomite occurs in undisturbed meadows from 1.8 to 3.6 metres above the present creek bed. Approximately 0.8 hectare of the meadow is underlain by 0.3 to 0.9 metre of white diatomite underlain by 0.3 to 0.9 metre of brown and yellow. The average thickness is about 0.9 metre with the best material occupying about 0.1 hectare at the east end. Both the white and the coloured diatomites calcine to a pale pink.

Bibliography
CANMET RPT *691, pp. 44,81
EMPR OF 1988-13
EMPR MAP 30
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 249
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
EMPR PFD 811441, 811559, 20683

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