MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GSW014

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	06-Dec-1989	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

SUMMARY


		NMI
Name	CAPILANO VALLEY CLAY	Mining Division	Vancouver
		BCGS Map	092G035
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092G06E
Latitude	049º 21' 24''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	123º 06' 52''	Northing	5467112
		Easting	491689
Commodities	Clay	Deposit Types	B06 : Fireclay E07 : Sedimentary kaolin
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks


Capsule Geology	A well stratified, glacial lake deposit of very fine-grained highly plastic blue clay occurs about 2.4 kilometres north of the Capilano suspension bridge in the Capilano Valley.

Bibliography

EMPR BULL *30, pp. 15,48

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GSC MAP 42-1963; 1069A; 1152A; 1386A

GSC MEM 335

GSC MISC RPT No. 996, 1908, p. 26

GSC OF 611

GSC P 53-28

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