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MDI31C06SE00014
| Record Name(s) | Lonsdale Quarry - 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-Jul-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Tyendinaga
Latitude: 44° 16' 15.88" Longitude: -77° 7' 44.09"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 330094.116 Northing: 4904185.451 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C06SE
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Just SW of Lonsdale.
Stone used for local buildings and Roman Catholic church at Marysville was quarried from the banks of the Salmon River, just below the road bridge. (DEMR/CANMET 1938, p93).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Limestone is dense-textured, dove-grey in colour, and lies in flat beds 3 to 9 inches in thickness (DEMR/CANMET #781, p93).
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 93 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 94 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 151 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:
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