MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092ISE139

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	27-May-1986	by	Eileen Van der Flier Keller (EVFK)

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		NMI
Name	QUILCHENA COAL, QUILCHENA CREEK	Mining Division	Nicola
		BCGS Map	092I008
Status	Developed Prospect	NTS Map	092I02E
Latitude	050º 04' 48''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 30' 13''	Northing	5550510
		Easting	678602
Commodities	Coal	Deposit Types	A04 : Bituminous coal
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage

Capsule Geology

Six to seven small coal seams, probably containing sub-high volatile bituminous B rank coal occur in the Middle Eocene Coldwater Formation (Princeton Group) interbedded with sandstone, conglomerate and shale. The sequence is approximately 120 metres thick and less than 10 per cent of this is made up of shale and coal.

The Quilchena coal basin is 11 by 3 kilometres in a north-south direction. The coal bearing strata appear to strike approximately north to northwest and dip 20 to 40 degrees east to northeast. The Coldwater Formation lies unconformably above Upper Triassic Nicola Group volcanic rocks.

Inferred reserves of the Quilchena coal basin is estimated at 10 million tonnes of sub-high volatile bituminous B rank coal (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 89-4; Open File 1992-1).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1946-250-279 EMPR COAL ASS RPT 165, 166, 167 EMPR EXPL 1989-119-134 EMPR FIELDWORK 1991, pp. 427-432 EMPR MAP 65 (1989) EMPR OF 1992-1 EMPR PF (Rotary hole log and gamma log, 1980; Drillhole location maps, regional and property geology maps, 1981) GSC MAP 886A GSC MEM 69, pp. 280-285 GSC OF 980 EMPR PFD 10684, 10685, 10686, 10687, 10688, 10689, 10690, 10691, 21212, 896435