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MDI31C09NW00048
| Record Name(s) | Westport Quarry 2 - 1989 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-07 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones), Aggregate
Township or Area: North Crosby, North Crosby
Latitude: 44° 39' 44.92" Longitude: -76° 24' 54.47"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 387813 Northing: 4946431 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C09NW
Point Location Description: former quarry 2 km southwest of Westport.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Inactive.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Host |
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Sep 14, 2015 (A Wilson) - The limestone is thin to medium bedded, and has a dark grey fresh surface and a light to medium grey weathered surface. A 40 cm thick bed of oolitic limestone occurs. The silty dolostone is sublithographic to fine crystalline, calcitic to noncalcitic, and medium bedded; some beds contain laminations of possible algal origin. The fresh surface of the silty dolostone is brownish grey, and the weathered surface is buff to light brown.
Sep 14, 2015 (A Wilson) - Sample 43 analysed by the Mines Branch assayed 0.70% ferric oxide, 0.30 alumina, 74.88%CaCO3,13.93 MgCO4
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 141 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:
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology, Westport area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2723 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1984
Author: Williams D.A., Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the calendar year ending December 31, 1917; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 493
Publication Number: CMB Pub 493 Page: 30 Date: 1918
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707
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