MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092GSE006

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	25-May-2007	by	Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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		NMI	092G2 Cly3
Name	PORT HANEY CLAY, HANEY BRICK	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092G028
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	092G02E
Latitude	049º 12' 33''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	122º 35' 49''	Northing	5450786
		Easting	529357
Commodities	Clay	Deposit Types	B06 : Fireclay E07 : Sedimentary kaolin
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage

Capsule Geology

The Port Haney Brick Company Ltd., in Haney, produced building tile, drain tile and flue-lining from local surface clay but no production figures are available.

The grey, non-calcareous surface clay is fine grained, very plastic and hosts 46.2 per cent water. The average shrinkage for the clay when drying was 11.7 per cent. An analysis of the clay yielded 58.5 per cent SiO2, 21.1 per cent Al2O3, 8.6 per cent Fe2O3, 6.5 per cent CaO, 0.5 per cent MgO and ignition loss of 4.8 per cent (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1908, page 186).

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1908-186; 1947-207; 1948-184; 1949-250; 1950-22; 1951-215;

1952-250; 1953-189; *1961-143; 1967-302; 1968-298

EMPR BULL *30, p. 10

GSC MAP 1386A

GSC MEM 24E, p. 141, 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