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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Nov-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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NMI
Name ICE Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F040
Status Showing NTS Map 082F08E
Latitude 049º 20' 14'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 06' 18'' Northing 5465330
Easting 565019
Commodities Titanium Deposit Types M : ULTRAMAFIC/MAFIC ASSOCIATION
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Ice showing is located in the headwaters of the Moyie River just east of the junction with South Moyie Creek. Disseminated ilmenite occurs in a metagabbro sill (N. Carter, personal communication, 1993), part of the Moyie intrusions into Aldridge Formation, both belonging to the Purcell Supergroup of Middle Proterozoic age.

Bibliography
EM GEOS MAP 1998-3
EMPR ASS RPT 4131, 8841, 24244
EMPR GEM 1972-52; 1973-65
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 820; 929; 2721
EMPR PFD 861287

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