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MDI30L13SW00003
Record Name(s) | Cheapside Quarry - 9999 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
Date Created | 2002-Aug-12 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Walpole
Latitude: 42° 51' 11.95" Longitude: -79° 59' 24.31"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 582512.309 Northing: 4745020.969 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30L13SW
Point Location Description: Partially water-filled quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located 2 km north of Cheaside in the Walpole Township, the Municipality of City of Nanticoke.
The quarry was operated in the early 1900's by the township to provide crushed stone for local road construction.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: MID DEVONIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The geology at this quarry consists of 3.1m thick limestone of Middle Devonian Dundee Formation, very fine to fine crystalline, thin to medium-bedded with rare bituminous partings, fossiliferous with brachiopods, bryozoans and crinoids.
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Dunnville area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P0988 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1975
Author: Telford P.G., Tarrant G.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Aggregate resources inventory of the City of Nanticoke, Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk, southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP059 Date: 1984
Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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