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MDI31C02NW00014
| Record Name(s) | Napanee Quarry - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Dec-06 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Fredericksburgh
Latitude: 44° 13' 38.04" Longitude: -76° 54' 53.41"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 347065.994 Northing: 4898894.538 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C02NW
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 3.2 km SE of Napanee.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: A small quarry, between the road and the CNR.
Early 1900s : operated as a producer of crushed stone for roads before closing. Owned by Don Hunt and on about 1.4 acres. Moderate vegetation cover. The quarry is now used as a dump by the owner.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry, excavated into a low bluff, exposes the middle Ordovician Gull River Formation - some parts of the face (6 m) are covered with talus. This is a thin-bedded, very fine-grained, dark grey limestone which is fossiliferous - abundant brachiopods, trilobites, gastropods and corals. There are irregular seams of shale in the upper beds but hardly any in the lower. Sample # 75 (1938).
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 126 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 152 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 - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 186 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Resident Geologist 1985 Building Stone Inventory, Site # 9
Publication Number: Bld St Date: 2000
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP
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