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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  16-Oct-1991 by Robert G. Gaba (RGG)

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NMI 092O3 Fe7
Name BLUE CREEK Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092O008
Status Showing NTS Map 092O02E
Latitude 051º 02' 42'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 30' 47'' Northing 5654942
Easting 534136
Commodities Jade/Nephrite, Gemstones Deposit Types Q01 : Jade
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Bridge River
Capsule Geology

The Blue Creek nephrite jade showing is 7.5 kilometres west- northwest of the confluence of Blue Creek and the Yalakom River. The showing is an irregular mass of nephrite up to 8 metres wide associated with a calc-silicate alteration zone within serpentinite melange of the Permian and older Shulaps Ultramafic Complex. The nephrite occurs as small pods with botryoidal morphology, together with minor clinoamphibole and vesuvianite. Contacts are not exposed and the extent of the mineralization is not known.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 32
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
GSC MEM 130
GSC P 72-53; *78-19, p. 27
GSC OF 2207
EMPR PFD 673090, 503211

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