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MINFILE No  092JNE106
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  10-Sep-1991 by Mary McLean (MM)

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Name CADWALLADER MOUNTAIN Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J067
Status Showing NTS Map 092J10E
Latitude 050º 39' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 42' 05'' Northing 5612461
Easting 521105
Commodities Asbestos Deposit Types M06 : Ultramafic-hosted asbestos
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

Serpentinized peridotite, possibly of the President Ultramafics (probably correlative with Permian and older Shulaps Ultramafics), occurs in a large body against granodiorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex.

Excellent quality cross fibre crysotile asbestos occurs in closely spaced veinlets 3 millimetres wide in 30 centimetre widths of partly serpentinized peridotite.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, p. 35; 1985, pp. 303-310; 1986, pp. 23-29; 1987, pp. 93-130; 1988, pp. 105-152; 1989, pp. 45-72; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10; 1995-25
GSC MEM *213, p. 70
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