MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GSE003

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	04-Jan-1990	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI
Name	INDIAN ARM GRANITE QUARRY	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092G046
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	092G07W
Latitude	049º 24' 31''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	122º 54' 35''	Northing	5472885
		Easting	506549
Commodities	Aggregate, Granite, Dimension Stone, Building Stone	Deposit Types	R15 : Crushed rock R03 : Dimension stone - granite
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Gilpin-Nash Company Ltd. started quarrying operations in August 1949, on Lot 872, near Elsay Creek, on the west shore of Indian Arm.

Granite of Early to mid-Cretaceous age of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex was quarried to produce jetty-rock and rubble but no production figures are available. The granite is similar to that worked at the Croker Island Quarry (092GSE034). However, the sheeting is thinner and the jointing is irregular and more closely spaced.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1950-218; 1951-215; 1952-249; 1953-186; 1958-101, 1959-153, 1960-137

EMPR IND MIN FILE (Hora, Z.D. (1979): Rock Quarries in British Columbia - Granite, p. 9 (in Ministry Library))

EMPR OF 1991-20

GSC MAP 1069A; 1151A; 1153A; 1386A

GSC MEM 335

GSC P 90-1F, pp. 95-107

Armstrong, J.E. (1990): Vancouver Geology, Geological Association of Canada (Cordilleran Section)

Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia