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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Nov-1994 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name LITTLE MOUNTAIN, MOUNT SHANNON Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H011
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092H04W
Latitude 049º 11' 06'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 55' 02'' Northing 5448586
Easting 578903
Commodities Building Stone Deposit Types R : INDUSTRIAL ROCKS
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Harrison
Capsule Geology

Mount Shannon, east of Chilliwack, is mapped by Monger as Lower and Middle Jurassic Harrison Lake Formation rock which consists of intermediate to locally felsic flows and pyroclastics, with local argillite and conglomerate (GSC Map 41-1989). Minister of Mines Annual Reports from 1955 to 1959 report a quarry on Mount Shannon, but include it, however, under the "Granite" quarry section. No description of the type of rock is mentioned in the reports. About 34,500 tonnes of rock, used for dike repair, was produced over three years in the late 1950s, and the quarry was in operation at least one more year but production was not reported.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1955-71; *1956-149; *1957-78; *1958-87; *1959-153
GSC MAP 12-1969; 737A; 1069A; 41-1989
GSC P 69-47

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