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Record: MDI31C08SW00047

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Griffin - 1991, Joyceville Quarry - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Producing Mine
Date Created 1991-May-29
Date Last Modified 2023-Sep-29
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Pittsburgh

Latitude: 44° 21' 21.16"    Longitude: -76° 20' 23.87"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 393213.576   Northing: 4912273.608    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C08SW

Point Location Description: Precise, quarry visible on satellite photo

Location Method: Other

Access Description: 0.7 km SW of Joyceville.



Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins

Geological Age: Paleozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Gull River formation: light to dark grey, fine crystalline to lithographic, 6.8 m thick.




Mineral Record Details

References

MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario

Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 26-27  Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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

Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 144-146  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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