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| Record Name(s) | Barnes-Steep Rock - 2000, Angelstone - 2000, Tatlock Quarry - 2000, Barnes (Angelstone) Quarry - 2000, Steep Rock Resources - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1985-Sep-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jun-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone), Marble (Structural Material), Calcite
Township or Area: Darling
Latitude: 45° 8' 58.88" Longitude: -76° 29' 55.52"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 382183.221 Northing: 5000671.859 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F01NW
Point Location Description: Square symbol ' Ma 11 ' SW of Tatlock and N of Murrays Hill.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From Hwy 7 at Perth take the road to Lanark. At Lanark and the junction to Carleton Place (8.7 ml) continue straight. At the 30.9 ml junction turn right onto a gravel road to Tatlock. The quarry is at 31.85 ml on the left.
Originally opened by Angelstone Ltd (1962/3-1971/2), producing ' Temple White ' dimension stone from 2 quarries on lots 4 and 5. W. R. Barnes reopened the quarry on lot 4 in 1977 and produced decorative stone chips and calcium carbonate filler. They also built a processing plant in Perth. In 1981 the plant and quarry were purchased by Steep Rock Resources Inc. (a subsidiary of Pluess-Staufer A.G.) The quarry has been operated on a seasonal basis , producing 250,000 tonnes per year for year round operations of the mill (1992). Increased levels of production were expected in 1993 as stripping to the N and S of the present quarry was carrried out at that time. Plant capacity was increased above its previous 250, 000 tonnes limit. The Perth mill produced (1992) : high-grade calcium carbonate filler for the paper industry, decorative aggregate, terrazo chips, poultry grit, agricultural limestone, stucco mix and fine-grained filler for floor tile, wall joint compounds, paints and plastics. Diamond drilling was done by Steep Rock Resources Inc. at Lot 5, Con. 4, see assessment file #19, Darling Twp.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry lies in the W part of a 17.7 km wide marble belt with minor paragneiss and metavolcanics. The quarried rock is white, coarse-grained (2.8 mm) calcitic marble; one of the purest and brightest (>95 %) of its kind. The units being quarried occur in an 85 m wide zone which contains reserves for over 50 years (1992).
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 3, marble
Publication Number: IMR016 Page: 64 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 1: marble
Publication Number: MDC021 Page: 55-57,108 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Steep Rock Calcite - a division of Steep Rock Resources Inc.
Publication Number: MP114.007 Page: 46-48 Date: 1997
Author: Wood G.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 54 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Compend - Report of Activities 1992, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP161 Page: 374-375 Date: 1993
Author: Fenwick K.G., Pitts A.E., Newsome J.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Hull-Maniwaki, Quebec; Ottawa-Peterborough, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 69-50
Publication Number: Paper 69-50 Page: 78 Date: 1976
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103344
File - Resident Geologist files AFRO 1984, #19
Publication Number: Date: 2001
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP
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