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Record: MDI31G05NE00045

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Kirby Quarry - 1938, Rogers and Kirby - 1915
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Prospect
Date Created 1993-Mar-24
Date Last Modified 2024-Sep-05
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Gloucester

Latitude: 45° 26' 46.29"    Longitude: -75° 38' 55.02"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 449277.351   Northing: 5032723.057    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31G05NE

Point Location Description: Map number 31, 1.0 km SSE of Manor Park.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: A short distance NE of the Notre Dame cemetary.



Exploration History

Pre-1917 : quarry owned by Rogers and Kirby, producing crushed rock. Opened in an escarpment. 1938 : by now the quarry is owned by the T. Sidney Kirby Co Ltd. It covers an area of about 350 square feet and exposes 34 ft of Bobcaygeon Formation limestone (upper and middle member).


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The upper and middle members of the Bobcaygeon Formation are exposed in the quarry - see section AQ OT-8 in OGS 1991. Limestone with some shaly partings; stylolites, cross-bedding, corals, bryuozoa, brachiopods; chert.




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Road material surveys in 1915; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 99

Publication Number: GSC Mem 99 Page: 42  Date: 1917

Author: Reinecke, L

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101678


Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 249  Date: 1991

Author: Williams D.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario

Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 52-54  Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823


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