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File Created: 06-Jan-1992 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  21-Jan-1992 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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NMI
Name FIFTEEN MILE CREEK COAL Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M034
Status Showing NTS Map 093M06W
Latitude 055º 18' 47'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 23' 35'' Northing 6130805
Easting 601987
Commodities Coal Deposit Types A04 : Bituminous coal
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Bowser Lake
Capsule Geology

An unnamed coal occurrence is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2322 on Fifteen Mile Creek, 20 kilometres east-northeast of Hazelton.

The area is underlain by moderately-dipping, folded clastic sedimentary strata of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group. The Bowser Lake Group consists of sandstone, shale, conglomerate, siltstone, argillite with minor coal and carbonaceous units.

No other information is available on the occurrence.

Bibliography
GSC OF *2322

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