MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 092GSW046

File Created:	09-May-1986	by	Eileen Van der Flier Keller (EVFK)
Last Edit:	17-Dec-1989	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI
Name	GRANBY, GRANBY COLLIERY, GRANBY NO. 1, GRANBY NO. 2, CASSIDY, NO. 3, NO. 4, NO. 5, NO. 7, NO. 1 COLLIERY	Mining Division	Nanaimo
		BCGS Map	092G001
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	092G04W
Latitude	049º 03' 47''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	123º 53' 20''	Northing	5434846
		Easting	435067
Commodities	Coal	Deposit Types	A04 : Bituminous coal
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage

Capsule Geology

The coal mined in the Granby mines is part of the Douglas Seam in the Early Campanian Newcastle Member of the Upper Cretaceous Pender Formation, Nanaimo Group. The coal is high volatile bituminous rank and varies from 0.2 to over 7.0 metres in thickness. The coal is underlain and overlain by fine grit and conglomerate to sandy shale. It contains silty sections and pinches and swells.

The area southwest of Cassidy contains two northwest trending, southeast plunging folds, a southern syncline and a northern anticline. The Granby mines are located on the upper portion of the northern limb of the syncline. The syncline is faulted to the south by an east-northeast trending fault.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1917-260; 1918-433; 1919-45,327-330; 1920-265,283; 1921-277,291; 1922-284,300-303; 1923-311,325; 1924-301,315-316; 1925-336,391-393; 1926-341,395-397; 1927-370,430,432; 1928-392,465-466; 1929-404,465; 1930-318,397; 1931-178,218; 1932-228,267; 1937-G5,G29; 1938-G4,G32; 1939-A115,A136; 1940-A101,A122; 1941-A96,115; 1942-A94,A113; 1943-A89,A110; 1944-A86,A117; 1945-A137,A158; 1946-A216,A236; 1947-A236;A252; 1948-A202,A220; 1949-A276,A293-A296; 1950-A242,A259-260: 1951-A247,A273; 1952-A284,A303; 1953-A224,A241

EMPR BULL 14, p. 16

EMPR COAL ASS RPT *92

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 441-450; 1988, pp. 553-558

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

GSC MEM 51; 69

GSC OF 611

GSC P *47-22; 68-50; 69-25; *70-53; 89-4

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

Times Colonist, Islander, page 8-9, June 13, 1999

EMPR PFD 202150, 202151, 248028, 248052, 751328, 895404, 751462, 751468, 751470, 751471, 751481, 752262, 752266, 752279, 752280, 752267, 752951, 752952, 751126, 753045, 753046, 753047, 753048, 751141, 751168, 751188, 751193, 751197, 751198, 751199, 751201, 751379, 751380, 751381, 751391, 751476, 752072, 752991, 752994, 751390