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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Jun-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104I7 Asb1
Name B, B13 Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I037
Status Showing NTS Map 104I07E
Latitude 058º 19' 25'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 42' 41'' Northing 6464776
Easting 516905
Commodities Asbestos, Jade/Nephrite, Gemstones Deposit Types M06 : Ultramafic-hosted asbestos
Q01 : Jade
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The B occurrence is located approximately 80 kilometres east of the community of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by northwest trending Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Complex rocks including metavolcanics, metasediments and tectonically emplaced ultramafic rocks of upper Mississippian to Permian age. The Cache Creek ultramafic rocks consist of peridotite, dunite and pyroxenite which are generally serpentinized.

These rocks also contain pods of nephrite jade, two of which are plotted on Geological Survey of Canada Open File map 2779 in the immediate vicinity of the B13 asbestos showing. The characteristics of these pods are not documented.

In 1966, small amounts of medium length chrysotile asbestos (5 to 8 millimetres) were reported to occur on the B13 claim (Assessment Report 825). Although apparently initially independent of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation's Letain Asbestos deposit (104I 006) located 1.7 kilometres northwest, by 1966 the claims were part of those holdings.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *825, *1075, 1076, 38458
EMPR OF 1989-18; 1995-25; 1996-11
GSC MEM 194, p. 14
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC OF 610; 2262; *2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27

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