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MDI31C05SE00006
| Record Name(s) | Springbrook Quarry - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jun-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Rawdon
Latitude: 44° 22' 55.05" Longitude: -77° 36' 2.93"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 292822.658 Northing: 4917587.552 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C05SE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: This inactive quarry is located 2.3 km south of the hamlet of Springbrook.
This quarry operated early in the 1900's providing crushed stone for local road construction.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Verulam Formation: 5.6 m thick. Bobcaygeon Formation, upper member: 2.9 m thick.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Host |
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Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Hull-Maniwaki, Quebec; Ottawa-Peterborough, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 69-50
Publication Number: Paper 69-50 Scale: Date: 1976
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103344
Mono - Preliminary report on the Paleozoic geology of the Peterborough-Campbellford area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5331 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Carson D.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Scale: 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
Location:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Scale: Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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