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File Created: 04-Dec-1990 by Kirk Hancock (KDH)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name YELO Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082J072
Status Showing NTS Map 082J13E
Latitude 050º 45' 36'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 36' 52'' Northing 5624052
Easting 597723
Commodities Magnesite Deposit Types E09 : Sparry magnesite
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Yelo showings are west of a small lake at the head of Struna Creek. Access is by air or 5 kilometres by foot up a steep canyon from the road to the Baymag mine (082JNW001).

The best outcrops of magnesite are about 350 metres southwest of the small lake. Mineralization is hosted in dolomitized carbonates of a shallow marine/reefal environment. The host formation is the Middle Cambrian Cathedral Formation. Mineralization consists of magnesium-enriched dolomite approaching magnesite composition. No samples of "high-grade" magnesite were identified. In general, the rocks on the claim group are dolomite, limestone and some magnesitic dolomite.

General assay values of MgO content are 42 to 68 per cent in calcined samples. A single sample assayed 87.5 MgO (calcined) (Assessment Report 6565).

Prospecting and sampling were performed in 1976 and no work has been done since. The Yelo claims were acquired by Baymag Mines Ltd. in 1989.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *6565
EMPR OF 1987-13; 1992-14
GSC OF 634

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