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| Record Name(s) | Crookston Quarry South - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-06 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Huntingdon
Latitude: 44° 25' 42.28" Longitude: -77° 26' 58.34"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 305027.781 Northing: 4922375.716 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C06NW
Point Location Description: General, Point just south of Crookston.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Located along CNR line at Crookston (formerly North Hastings Railway).
Quarries north and south of the road have been worked at intervals from 1890 to 1927. Stone used for structural purposes. The piers of the South Shore bridge and Victoria bridge at Montreal were constructed of this stone (Gouge, 1938).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Oct 03, 2006 (D Laidlaw) - Bluish to brown grey, fine-grained limestone. Jointing pattern - regular; moderate jointing.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Scale: Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Part - Non-metallic mineral resources of Hastings County
Publication Number: ARV39-06.003 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Osborne F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Scale: Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Reconnaissance survey of building stones of eastern and central Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5585 Scale: Date: 1986
Author: Verschuren C.P., Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W., Villard D.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Location:
Mono - Carbonate building stone resources of the Lake Simcoe-Kingston area, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5730 Scale: Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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