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MINFILE No  104P 068
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Oct-2014 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name CREEK Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104P042
Status Showing NTS Map 104P05E
Latitude 059º 27' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 44' 26'' Northing 6591292
Easting 458020
Commodities Chromium Deposit Types M03 : Podiform chromite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Creek occurrence is located on a creek 9 kilometres northwest of Gallic Lake, about 114 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake.

Chromite occurs with olivine in serpentinized peridotite of the Upper Paleozoic Sylvester Allochthon (Permian Slide Mountain Complex).
Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 245-248
EMPR BULL 83
EMPR OF 1989-9; 1996-11
EMPR MP MAP 1992-13
GSC MEM 319
GSC OF 2779
GSC MAP *54-10; 1110A
Harms, T.A. (1986): Structural and Tectonic Analysis of the Sylvester Allochthon, Northern British Columbia, Implications for Paleogeography and Accretion, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Arizona
EMPR PFD 672734, 672735, 674306, 674324
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