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File Created: 22-Feb-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  28-Oct-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name CASCADE, BOSTON BAR, B.C. GRANITE, ALPINE SUMMER, MARGRANITE, QUARRY PACIFIC Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H054
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092H11W
Latitude 049º 35' 41'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 16' 25'' Northing 5495003
Easting 624759
Commodities Granite, Dimension Stone, Building Stone Deposit Types R03 : Dimension stone - granite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Cascade prospect is located about 27 kilometres northeast of the community of Hope, and is underlain by green-white coarse-grained granite of the Eocene Needle Peak pluton.

Test splitting of large boulders for building stone use has taken place late in 1992. The stone contains feldspar crystals up to 2 centimetres in diameter which have indications of zoning with light beige centres and greenish rims with white feldspar as pale matrix elsewhere. The rock contains occasional hornblende crystals.

The operator is B.C. Granite Ltd. of Burnaby. Available potential quarry sites are in several places of the valley.

Margranite Industry Ltd. possibly produced Alpine Summer from this quarry.

Bibliography
EMPR OF 1994-1
GSC MAP 737A; 12-1969; 1712A; 41-1989
EMPR PFD 650168, 650171

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