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Record Name(s) | Braeside Quarry - 1989 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
Date Created | 1991-Mar-20 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: McNab
Latitude: 45° 28' 10.02" Longitude: -76° 26' 32.09"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 387261.002 Northing: 5036114.005 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F08NW
Point Location Description: precise
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The quarry is located 7 km northwest of Arnprior.
1930-1950: aggregate production 1973-1990: Smiths Consturction Co. Ltd. - in operation
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Dolomitic | Is |
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Sep 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - Bobcaygeon Formation interbedded calcarenite and sublithographic to line crystalline limestone
Sep 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - The quarry was opened as an aggregate quarry to supply local sand and gravel needs. In 1973 the aggregate was used for the construction of the Anprior hydro dam. By 1979, the material was used to supply asphalt plants.
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Scale: Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Scale: 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:
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Scale: Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Renfrew, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2462 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology, Arnprior-Quyon area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2726 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1984
Author: Williams D.A., Wolf R.R., Rae A.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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