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Record Name(s) | Braeside South Quarry - 1938 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Prospect |
Date Created | 1994-Jun-08 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: McNab
Latitude: 45° 27' 27.66" Longitude: -76° 23' 53.45"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 390682.998 Northing: 5034746.002 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F08NW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 1.2 km east of Braeside.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Is |
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Sep 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - The top 6 feet of the quarry consists of thin beds of magnesian limestone separated by shale layers up to 6 inches in thickness. Below this, the limestone is in heavy beds mottle and streaked horizontally. Some of the beds are dolomitic and some are magnesian limestone. Satterly described the quarry as being 150 feet wide and narrowing to 25 feet at the north end. In 1944 the face ranged from 5 to 12 feet
Sep 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - The stone was used for aggregate prior to 1944.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Scale: Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
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Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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 - Renfrew, Renfrew and Lanark counties, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 67G Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1951
Author: Geological Survey of Canada
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/109668
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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Map - Renfrew area, Province of Ontario
Publication Number: ARM53B Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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