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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Mar-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name COLUMBIA RIVER Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082M029
Status Showing NTS Map 082M08E
Latitude 051º 16' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 13' 04'' Northing 5680184
Easting 415041
Commodities Andalusite Deposit Types P01 : Andalusite hornfels
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by probable Lower Paleozoic Lardeau Group metasediments and metavolcanics.

The showing occurs as andalusite schists within argillaceous mica schists, quartzites and chlorite schists. The metasediments strike northwest and dip at low angles to the east.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 12-1964
GSC OF 637
GSC P 64-32
GSC SUM RPT 1928A, p. 143

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