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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 092G7 Cly2, Cly3
Name PORT MOODY, BURRARD CLAY Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092G026
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092G07W
Latitude 049º 17' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 51' 14'' Northing 5459859
Easting 510624
Commodities Clay Deposit Types B06 : Fireclay
E07 : Sedimentary kaolin
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Pacific Clay Products Ltd. and the Burrard Brick and Tile Co., is located in Pleasantside on the north side of Port Moody Inlet. These companies produced common brick and facebrick from local surface clay. The blue clay was very plastic and non-calcare- ous. The clays have relatively short firing temperature ranges, fire red to reddish-brown in colour and are suitable for structural prod- ucts.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1947-205,207
EMPR BULL *30, pp. 11,48
GSC MAP 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

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