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Record: MDI31C02NE00010

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Amherstview Quarry #3 - 1990
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1990-Nov-30
Date Last Modified 2023-Aug-25
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Ernestown

Latitude: 44° 14' 6.41"    Longitude: -76° 40' 56.73"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 365646.359   Northing: 4899363.381    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C02NE

Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 2.75 km N of Bayview.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

Inactive quarry in the upper member of the Gull River Formation. The quarry is flooded (about 10 ft to water level) with moderate vegetation cover. Building stone from this quarry may have been used in the Nicholson's Point, Amherstview area.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Brown, thinly-bedded, lithographic to sub-lithographic limestone of the upper member of the Gull River Formation.




Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 59  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics

Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 153  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

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Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: ET03.0  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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