Texada Quarrying (Lafarge) Marine Terminal

Van Anda (Texada Island), BC · Private · Lafarge Canada Inc · Strait of Georgia

Private barge-loading marine terminal serving Lafarge Canada's Texada Quarrying limestone operation on Texada Island in the Strait of Georgia, roughly 60 km northwest of Vancouver. The quarry produces on the order of four million tonnes of limestone per year, and essentially all of it is loaded onto barges at the on-site port facility and shipped across the Strait of Georgia to Lafarge's cement plant on the Fraser River in Richmond, BC, where limestone is the primary raw ingredient for cement. The operation, near Gillies Bay/Van Anda, employs roughly 90 people and has been a Lafarge asset since 1998 (previously Beale/Ideal Cement/Holderbank). Separately, at the north end of the island at Blubber Bay, a second large limestone quarry and shipping operation was run by Ash Grove Cement (suspended ~2010; Ash Grove is now part of CRH plc) supplying limestone to a Seattle/Puget Sound cement plant.