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| Record Name(s) | Stewart Quarry - 1982, Alexander Stewart Quarry - 2000, Rockland (Stewart) Quarry - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1982-Apr-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Chemical/Flux)
Township or Area: Clarence
Latitude: 45° 31' 59.18" Longitude: -75° 18' 8.77"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 476385.575 Northing: 5042218.822 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G11SW
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 1 Km S of Rockland.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From the junction of Hwy 17 and the turnoff to Rockland business section, turn left towards the business section. At 0.25 Km turn right onto old Hwy 17 and at 0.45 Km turn left and continue along a gravel road. Turn left onto a single lane road at the junction at 2.0 Km and the quarry is at 2.2 Km.
Circa 1912 : abandoned and partly-overgrown.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Mineral location - calcite and abundant fossils. Displays a significant geological section of the Gull River and Bobcaygeon Formations.
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 205 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 180 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector Ottawa to North Bay, Ontario; Hull to Waltham, Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 70-50
Publication Number: GSC Paper 70-50 Page: 81 Date: 1971
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102463
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 52 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 17-18 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 - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 262-3 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: CL02.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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