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MINFILE No  093M 097
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  25-May-2007 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI 093M5 Col1
Name KISPIOX, KISPIOX RIVER F Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M032
Status Showing NTS Map 093M05E
Latitude 055º 22' 18'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 41' 43'' Northing 6136926
Easting 582685
Commodities Coal Deposit Types A04 : Bituminous coal
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Kispiox coal occurrence (F) is located on the Kispiox River, approximately 2 kilometres north of the village of Kispiox (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 223, figure 1 and Open File 2322).

The host rocks are folded and deformed shales, greywackes and conglomerates of the Lower Cretaceous Kitsuns Creek Formation (Skeena Group).

Bibliography
EMPR P 1986-5, p. 18
GSC MEM *69, pp. 163-167; *223, pp. 93-95
GSC SUM RPT *1909, p. 67; *1911, p. 90
GSC BULL *270
GSC P 73-31
GSC OF 2322 (Occurrence F)
EMPR PFD 681489
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