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MINFILE No  092F 188
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Jul-1989 by Wim S. Vanderpoll (WV)

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Name CRANBERRY LAKE Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092F088
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092F15E, 092F16W
Latitude 049º 51' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 29' 29'' Northing 5524842
Easting 392823
Commodities Dimension Stone Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Cranberry Lake quarry is underlain by diorite of the Juras- sic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex.

In 1960, 36,128 cubic metres of rock was quarried for construction of the Westview breakwater. In 1965, 6,116 cubic metres of rock was quarried for the foundations of the Powell River pulp mill expansion (Minister of Mines Annual Reports, 1960, page 137; 1965, page 261).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1959-197; *1960-137, 152; 1961-156; 1964-205; 1965-261
GSC MAP 1386A; 17-1968
GSC OF 611
GSC P 66-1
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