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File Created: 25-Oct-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  08-Oct-1998 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name MAIDEN CREEK LIMESTONE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I093
Status Showing NTS Map 092I13E
Latitude 050º 55' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 33' 38'' Northing 5642440
Easting 601166
Commodities Limestone Deposit Types R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

Fine grained, grey limestone of the middle to Upper Permian Marble Canyon Formation (Cache Creek Complex) outcrops at the north end of a small ridge trending north-northwest in the headwaters of Maiden Creek, 38 kilometres northeast of Lillooet. Bedding is subparallel to the ridge. A sample of this rock analysed 53.90 per cent CaO, 2.45 per cent MgO, 0.46 per cent SiO2, 0.50 per cent Al2O3, 0.11 per cent Fe2O3, 0.02 per cent TiO2, 0.02 per cent Na2O, 0.02 per cent K2O, 0.02 per cent P2O5 and 43.49 per cent ignition loss (B.C. Hydro Report SE 8117, Table Addendum 1, Sample 10).

Further south along the same ridge the limestone is fine grained, slightly siliceous and magnesian. A sample taken 300 metres south of the previous sample yielded 49.76 per cent CaO, 4.69 per cent MgO and 2.78 per cent SiO2 (Sample 11).

B.C. Hydro sampled the ridge in 1981 during a search for dolomite in the Hat Creek area for use in gas scrubbers in the company's proposed coal-fired electrical generating plant.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1958-90
EMPR FIELDWORK 1981, pp. 270,271
EMPR PF (*B.C. Hydro Reports 8117 (1981), Addendum, p. 3; SE 8221 (1983) (in 092INW098 - Langley Lake))
GSC MAP 1010A; 1386A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 262, p. 16
GSC OF 165; 866; 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10; 73-1A, p. 212; 74-49; 81-1A, pp. 185-189; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358
EMPR PFD 840513

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