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MDI31G03NE00012
| Record Name(s) | East Chesterville - 1993 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1993-Mar-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Finch
Latitude: 45° 6' 21.05" Longitude: -75° 10' 7.36"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 486727.382 Northing: 4994722.514 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G03NE
Point Location Description: Point 5.0 km E of Chesterville.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: On the E side of the road along the boundary between Stormont and Dundas counties.
Pre-1938 : a small quarry worked for road metal.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Gull River Formation in horizontal beds up to 18 in thick, fine-grained and very dark blue-grey. Sample # 214 (1938) - a pure, high calcium limestone. The face is 7 ft and soil cover 6 in -3 ft.
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
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Scale: Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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