MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092HNW063

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	EMORY CREEK	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092H053
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H11W
Latitude	049º 31' 17''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 28' 29''	Northing	5486537
		Easting	610391
Commodities	Kyanite, Sillimanite, Garnet	Deposit Types	P02 : Kyanite-sillimanite schists
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Shuksan


Capsule Geology	North of Emory Creek, streaky pelitic layers within a dominantly quartzo-feldspathic member of the Mesozoic Settler Schist contains up to 12 per cent kyanite, 10 per cent sillimanite and 12 per cent garnet. Streaky amphibolite members in this area may also contain up to 30 per cent garnet (Pigage, 1973).

Bibliography

EMPR OF *1988-26

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

GSC P 69-47

WWW http://www.infomine.com/index/properties/EMORY_CREEK.html

Bartholomew, P.R. (1979): Geology and Metamorphism of the Yale Creek Area, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc.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*Pigage, L.C. (1973): Metamorphism southwest of Yale, British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc.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