Beaverdell Granite Quarry

GRANITE QUARRY FOR SALE

The Beaverdell Granite quarry is located 14 kilometres south of Beaverdell BC, adjacent to Highway 33. The hostrock of the Beaverdell Granite quarry is a granitic stock centred near this area. The stock has been dated at 49.4 +/- 0.7 Ma (Eocene)
The quarry trends northeast from Highway 33. It follows a 40-metre wide band of lightly jointed porphyritic granite for approximately 130 metres. The stone at the Beaverdell Granite quarry consists of pink, coarse grained (greater than 5 millimetres) porphyritic granite with phenocrysts of pink orthoclase feldspar up to 3.5 by 6 centimetres. Other minerals include plagioclase, quartz, biotite and minor hornblende.
The average modal composition of the quarriable (QR or Cascade Coral) unit is 15 per cent quartz, 55 per cent orthoclase, 20 per cent plagioclase and 10 per cent biotite and hornblende.

The quarry measures approximately 40 metres long by about 12 metres high at its face with large potential reserves extending north of the site.
The quarry was operated from the 1960s up to about 1987 by Canroc International Corporation. The company shipped the stone to its processing plant in Delta to produce monument stone, flooring tile and facing stone for interior and exterior uses. From 1965 to 1967, Continental Marble & Granite Ltd. produced crushed stone for artificial stone. From 1971 to 1972, the company produced building stone.

The stone was marketed under the trade name 'Cascade Coral'. To date, the quarry has produced approximately 90 tonnes of blocks for polished slabs and tiles. Also crushed and sized fragments for terrazzo, and precast concrete slab products were produced.