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| Record Name(s) | Bolender Quarry - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1982-Aug-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Dec-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)
Secondary Commodities: Quartzite
Township or Area: Guilford
Latitude: 45° 7' 48.18" Longitude: -78° 30' 42.35"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 695666.633 Northing: 5000409.458 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E02NE
Point Location Description: 'st' dot symbol at SW end of Ilford Lake.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From the junction of Hwys 121 and 519 in Haliburton, proceed N along Hwy 519 for 8.7 km and turn left on to Road No. 6. At the 9.0 km turn-off go right to the quarry. The same mineral assemblage is exposed in road cuts on Hwy 519, extending N from its junction with Road No. 6, for 0.8 km.
Mineral location : poor - clinoamphibole + serpentine, scapolite, apatite.... 1938-42 : Bolender Brothers operated a quarry on lot 25, con 4 (just N of the road and 1/4 ml W of Eagle Lake village). In 1942 this quarry was 60 ft square with a 25 ft face and shipped about 20 tons/day to the Bolender Brothers crushing plant in Haliburton (used for poultry grit and stucco dash under the trade name 'White Star'). A small test quarry was opened up on the W side of the road from Eagle Lake village to Redstone Lake, lot 25. 1962 : 3 quarries had been opened up; the Smost in operation. Several hundred feet N of this, a small quarry had been opened on the hillside in a banded, white quartzite and white diopsidic rock - used for insoluble poultry grit (later found to be detrimental to the poultry). Principal products were poultry grit, terrazzo chips, stucco dash and marble sand (considerable amounts sold for surfacing driveways). 1972 : (lots 24 and 25) the product line now included pre-cast concrete facing, dust for compressed brick and sand for golf courses; 2 quarries were operating. 1983 : company sold to C. Gallant but continuing as before; 5 main products (poultry grit, roofing chips, chips for exposed facing concrete, white sand for golfing sand-traps, white sand for white cement blocks). Now shipping as far as the Maritimes. c1982 ? : estimated about 500,000 tons marble. 75,000 tons marble and quartzite removed, altogether, from 6 quarries (3 active); 4,200 tons of quartzite for poultry grit, 8 sizes of dolomite and a probable present production of 100,000 tons ? 1985 : Production now 8-9,000 tonnnes/year - crushed dolomite in 7 sizes - poultry grit is the main product (2,500 tonnes/year). They had to move their main production pit away from the road (due to property damage by blasting). They also sell fine dolomite dust mixed with earth for road construction and dust for mortar to match the white concrete blocks. 2023: Actively operated by Whitestone Aggregates Inc. as a pit and quarry under license #624293.
Province: Grenville
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A coarse, white dolomitic marble - it is cut by bands and lenses of black biotite schist (which is discarded).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Actinolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Quartz | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Serpentine | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Bancroft - Parry Sound area and southern Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 39
Publication Number: GSC Misc Rep 39 Page: 61 Date: 1996
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/121046
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 87 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 3, marble
Publication Number: IMR016 Page: 16-17 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 6 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Article - 1977 report of Algonquin Regional Geologist
Publication Number: MP078.009 Page: 108 Date: 1997
Author: Trusler J.R., Villard D.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 183 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Number: MP070 Page: 334 Date: 1977
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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