MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092GSW002

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	25-Mar-1991	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	SECHELT QUARRY, COLUMBIA MARBLE LTD.	Mining Division	Vancouver
		BCGS Map	092G041
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	092G05W
Latitude	049º 28' 43''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	123º 48' 50''	Northing	5480981
		Easting	441043
Commodities	Granite, Dimension Stone, Building Stone	Deposit Types	R03 : Dimension stone - granite
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Sechelt Quarry is situated on the Nor'west Bay Road, west of Sechelt, and was opened in diorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. About 18 tonnes of diorite were removed from near the west end of Nor'west Bay road in 1963 and shipped by Inland Quarries Ltd. to a Vancouver plant (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1963, p. 139). After being cut and polished, this material was found to contain too many flaws to be satisfactory for dimension stone.

In 1966 Columbia Marble Ltd. produced 270 tonnes of black diorite for dimension stone from an outcrop on the road in the vicinity of Inland's quarry, 0.8 kilometres west of Wakefield Creek (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1966, p. 262).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1963-139; 1966-262 GSC MAP *42-1963; 1069A; 1386A GSC OF 611 Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia EMPR PFD 507158, 676398, 680649