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MDI31F01NE00026
Record Name(s) | Indian River Quarry - 1991 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
Date Created | 1991-Jun-11 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Chemical/Flux)
Township or Area: Ramsay
Latitude: 45° 14' 47.74" Longitude: -76° 15' 25.44"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 401349.94 Northing: 5011113.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F01NE
Point Location Description: General, point 4.5 km northwest of the Tannery.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Central St. Lawrence Lowland
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Footwall |
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Feb 22, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - "The quarry from which this stone is derived is situated close to the Indian River. Here the limestone occurs in great thickness. It is white, highly crystalline, and contains scales of graphite. It bas been extensively quarried for lime burning, and small quantities have been employed in Pakenham and Almonte for foundations and facings of buildings" (GSC 1876).
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Graphite | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Descriptive catalogue of a collection of the economic minerals of Canada, and notes on a stratigraphical collection of rocks; Geological Survey of Canada, Separate Report no. 405
Publication Number: SR 405 Scale: Date: 1876
Author: Geological Corps of Canada
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/216063
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