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MDI40I16NE00014
| Record Name(s) | Hagersville South Quarry - 1960, Dufferin Aggregates - 1993 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2002-Jul-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Walpole
Latitude: 42° 57' 7.7" Longitude: -80° 4' 5.36"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 576012.219 Northing: 4755920.994 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40I16NE
Point Location Description: Water-filled quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The quarry is located on the southwestern outskirts of Hagersville just south of the Hagersville Northwest Quarry.
The quarry was originally opened in the early 1960s by Hagersville Quarries Limited. Several sizes of crushed stone were produced which were used for road construction, concrete aggregates and railway ballast. The quarry and the surrounding property are now owned by Dufferin Aggregates.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: MIDDLE DEVONIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - 4.2 m of cherty limestone of Middle Devonian Onondaga Formation is exposed above the water level at this quarry. The limestone is grey weathering into brown/tan, fine crystalline, thin to medium-bedded, with both black and white chert nodules, fossiliferous, abundant rugose corals.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Host |
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Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Simcoe area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2234 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1980
Author: Telford P.G., Hamblin A.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 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:
MonoMap - Quaternary geology of the Simcoe area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: R162 Page: 74 Date: 1978
Author: Barnett P.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
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