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MDI31G05SE00007
| Record Name(s) | Ottawa Quarry - 1991, Ottawa (South Gloucester) Quarry - 2001, Beaver Asphalt Paving - 2001, Grant Quarry - 2001, Miller Quarry - 2001 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Sep-05 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Gloucester
Latitude: 45° 17' 53.69" Longitude: -75° 33' 28.32"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 456260.348 Northing: 5016233.923 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G05SE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 5.0 km SE of Leitrim.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Pre-1917 : quarry in a small escarpment. c1989 : the Beaver Asphalt Quarry operation consists of 3 properties - The Grant Quarry (formerly operated by Bertrand and Freres Construction) on the N half of lot 28, con 5 (licensed for 35.49 ha). The Miller Quarry (owned by M. Miller and Sons, operated by Beaver Asphalt) on the S half of lot 27, con 5 (licensed for 24.28 ha). The Beaver property, part of lots 26 and 27, con 5 (licensed for 6.07 ha). The Grant and Miller quarries were being worked as a single quarry in 1989 - the 'Ottawa Quarry' - but the Beaver property had not yet been opened. About 80 % of the crushed aggregate produced is used by the company in construction projects, the remainder is retailed (1989). Drilling was carried out by MTO on lots 27 and 28, con 5 (GDH OT-5,6) and the section is described in OGS 1991.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The 13.5 m deep quarry (1989) exposes Oxford Formation dolostones. Calcite-filled vugs are common. Overburden is 1-3 m thick.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Is |
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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 68-70 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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Publication - Road material surveys in 1915; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 99
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 99 Page: 45 Date: 1917
Author: Reinecke, L
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101678
Book - Aggregate Assessment of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario Canada
Publication Number: Ott Agg Date: 1979
Author: Fletcher, T.W. and Klugman, M.A.
Publisher Name: Municipality of Ottawa/Carleton and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Location:
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 244, 278-9 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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