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Record: MDI31G10SE00007

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Higginson Quarry - 2001
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1991-Jan-31
Date Last Modified 2022-May-02
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Sandstone



Location

Township or Area: West Hawkesbury

Latitude: 45° 35' 55.33"    Longitude: -74° 36' 21.45"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 530731.308   Northing: 5049537.866    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31G10SE

Point Location Description: Point just S of Hawkesbury.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 100 yds SW of the station at Hawkesbury.



Exploration History

Pre-1912 : possibly used in canal construction (but said to shatter - likely due to use of explosives). Used for road metal in 1912. 1917 : tested for use as pulpstone but found to be too fine-grained and soft. 'a few years ago' the quarry was said to have been opened up by the Ottawa Valley Stone Quarry Co Ltd to test the lower beds for use as building stone. The earlier dynamiting made this difficult but, using channelling and plugs and feathers, some 'excellent building stone of large dimension' was obtained. Quarrying in 1917 was carried out in the the thicker, lower beds and the stone used in the Christian Brothers school at Alfred.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Rockliffe formation sandstone. The upper 3 ft is thinly-bedded and shattered but lower beds are more massive.




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100

Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 162  Date: 1912

Author: Parks, W.A.

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686


Publication - Test of some Canadian sandstones to determine their suitability as pulpstones; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 466

Publication Number: CMB Pub 466 Page: 6, 13-14  Date: 1917

Author: Cole, L H

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307692


Publication - Investigations of mineral resources and the mining industry, 1932; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 735

Publication Number: CMB Pub 735 Page: 7-8  Date: 1934

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/308122


Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 94  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: WH02.0  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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