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| Record Name(s) | Lake Ontario Cement - 1982, Picton Quarry - 1982 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1982-Apr-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Chemical/Flux)
Township or Area: Sophiasburgh
Latitude: 44° 3' 21.36" Longitude: -77° 7' 53.14"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 329274 Northing: 4880294 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C03SE
Point Location Description: Precise - from satellite image of centre of north quarry.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: West shore of Picton Bay, 4 km NE of Picton. Highway 49 passes through the property.
Original plant was built in 1958. 2023: The quarry and plant are owned and operated by Heidelberg Materials. The south quarry is inactive and flooded, and the north quarry is active.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Appalachian Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - The south quarry exposes 34.5 m of limestones and shales of the Verulam Formation and 19.5 m of limestones of the overlying lower member, Lindsay Formation (Limestone Industries of Ontario, Vol. II, p110, 111). The north quarry exposes limestones of the Ordovician Black River and Trenton Groups (OFR 6008, p1-2).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Host |
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| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Date: May 01, 2017
Geologist: P LeBaron
Notes: Tour of limestone quarry at the Lehigh Cement plant and quarry operations, Picton. Sampled and photographed a 70cm-wide kimberlite dike exposed in the north and south quarry walls (strike 080, dip 75 south).
Date: Jun 20, 2023
Geologist: Mateo Dorado-Troughton
Notes: North quarry was visited by the SO DG and RG in conjunction with K. Hahn, OGS Paleozoic Geologist and summer student. A Jurassic-aged kimberlite dike was viewed in the SW quarry wall. Quarry visit was in conjunction with K. Hahn's region bedrock geology mapping of the area.
File - 1986 Field trip report
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: SO RGP Deposit Files
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR005 Page: 54-56 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 31-32 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 26-27 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 110-114 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
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Mono - Report of Activities 1999, Resident Geologist Program, Southern Ontario Regional Resident Geologist Report: Southeastern and Southwestern Districts, Mines and Minerals Information Centre and Petroleum Resources Centre
Publication Number: OFR6008 Page: 1-2 Date: 2000
Author: Sangster P.J., McGuinty W.J., Papertzian V.C., Steele K.G., Lee C.R., Laidlaw D.A., Carter T.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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