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MDI31E02SE00004
| Record Name(s) | Casey - 1976 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Granite
Township or Area: Dysart
Latitude: 45° 0' 49.71" Longitude: -78° 32' 8.95"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 694168.586 Northing: 4987438.358 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E02SE
Point Location Description: Point 1.2 km S of Barnum Lake.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The quarry is on lot 9, a stockpile on lot 8, con 5.
1976 : opened and reported production of 75,000 tons of material of all sizes. Reserves listed as 325,000 tons D. and R.T. Casey were operating the quarry in 1982, apparently intermittantly. 0.25 acre is developed - 100 x 50 x 30 m. The stone is used for aggregate (granular A and B ) and gabion stone.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry is in black amphibolite (80 %) that is irregularly-veined by pink granite (20 %). It is too hererogeneous for building stone but some oversize blocks with a breccia-like appearance would be suitable landscape stone.
Mono - Building stone, feldspar and limestone resources in central Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5760 Page: 225 Date: 1991
Author: Marmont C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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File - Resident Geologists 1982 File
Publication Number: Date: 1996
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