MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092HNW028

File Created:	30-Mar-1988	by	Jennifer W. Pell (JP)
Last Edit:	19-Mar-1992	by	Dave Nelles (DMN)

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		NMI
Name	YALE CREEK	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092H053
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H11W, 092H12E
Latitude	049º 33' 59''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 30' 05''	Northing	5491500
		Easting	608362
Commodities	Sillimanite	Deposit Types	P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Shuksan


Capsule Geology	North of Yale Creek, pelitic units within the Mesozoic Settler Schist contain up to 15 per cent sillimanite, up to 11 per cent garnet and a few per cent of kyanite (Bartholomew, 1979).

Bibliography

EMPR OF *1988-26

GSC MAP 737A; 12-1969; 41-1989

GSC P 69-47

*Bartholomew, P.R. (1979): Geology and Metamorphism of the Yale Creek Area, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, p. 105

Pigage, L.C. (1973): Metamorphism southwest of Yale, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, p. 95