MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GSE036

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	30-Dec-1989	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI
Name	GRANITE FALLS QUARRY, INDIAN RIVER QUARRIES	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092G046
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	092G07W
Latitude	049º 26' 57''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	122º 51' 46''	Northing	5477399
		Easting	509946
Commodities	Granite, Dimension Stone, Aggregate	Deposit Types	R03 : Dimension stone - granite R15 : Crushed rock
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks


Capsule Geology	Jetty rock, riprap and rubble were produced from the Granite Falls quarry. Materials comprise granodiorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The granodiorite is characteristically medium to coarse-grained and is cut by numerous dioritic dykes with closely spaced fractures.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1938-F70; 1939-113; 1940-99; 1941-94; 1942-92; 1946-208; 1947- 212,213; 1948-184; 1949-247; 1950-218; 1951-215; 1952-249; 1953- 185; 1954-176; 1955-91; 1956-150; 1958-87; 1959-153; 1960-137; 1961-142; 1962-148; 1964-182

EMPR BULL 23, p. 44

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

GSC MAP 8-1956; 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