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Record: MDI31C07SW00027

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Denison - 1990, Storms Corners Quarry - 1990, J.C. Denison - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Producing Mine
Date Created 1990-Nov-30
Date Last Modified 2023-Sep-29
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Ernestown

Latitude: 44° 15' 2.82"    Longitude: -76° 48' 38.2"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 355448.097   Northing: 4901321.427    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C07SW

Point Location Description: Point 1.75 km S of Violet, quarry visible on satellite photo

Location Method: Other



Exploration History

Active quarry, opened in 1989 by J.C. Denison. About 14.2 acres in the S end, about 7.6 acres in the N pit. It is not in an area designated under the Pits and Quarries Control Act. 10 m face, overburden about 1-2 m thick.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry face exposes 10.0 m of the upper member of the Gull River Formation - thinly-bedded fine to very fine-grained fossiliferous limestone. Large colonies of the coral Tetradium, other colonial corals, brachiopods, trilobites and crinoids occur here.




Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario

Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 122-123  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:


File - Resident Geologist 1982 Building Stone File site # 24

Publication Number: Bld St Date: 2000

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Tweed RGP


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