MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092HNW075

File Created:	22-Feb-1993	by	George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:	12-Nov-2014	by	Laura deGroot (LDG)

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		NMI
Name	EAST ANDERSON RIVER, ANDERSON RIVER, AQUA MIST, QUARRY PACIFIC, WHITE WATER, WHITE WATER CLASSICO, MARGRANITE	Mining Division	New Westminster
		BCGS Map	092H065
Status	Producer	NTS Map	092H11E
Latitude	049º 40' 13''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	121º 08' 17''	Northing	5503636
		Easting	634347
Commodities	Granite, Dimension Stone, Building Stone	Deposit Types	R03 : Dimension stone - granite
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The East Anderson River quarry is located in coarse-grained, green-white granite of the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Eagle Plutonic Complex. Quarry Pacific Industries produces stone blocks from this quarry, to be processed into tile in Surrey.

The stone contains feldspar crystals up to 2 centimetres in diameter which have indications of zoning with light beige centres and pale greenish rims with white feldspar as matrix elsewhere. The rock contains occasional hornblende crystals.

In 1995, with Explore B.C. Program support, Quarry Pacific Industries Ltd. carried out a program of quarry preparation and development and some on-site block production from large boulders and outcrop. Limited quantities of two new products - Tiles of White Water and White Water Classico granite - were introduced on the market (Explore B.C. Program 95/96 - M148).

Margranite Industry Ltd. produces Aqua Mist from this quarry.


Bibliography	EMPR Explore B.C. Program 95/96 - M148 EMPR OF 1994-1 EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 1998-4 by Helgi Sigurgeirson) GSC MAP 737A; 12-1969; 1712A; 41-1989 WWW http://www.ceramstone.com EMPR PFD 8642