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| Record Name(s) | Dunnville Rock Products - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 2002-May-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Aggregate
Township or Area: Dunn
Latitude: 42° 53' 14.31" Longitude: -79° 37' 19.72"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 612512.553 Northing: 4749221.38 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30L13NE
Point Location Description: Quarry office
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 1 km south of the town of Byng. Parts of Lots 3,6,7,8, Concession Earl Tract.
The quarry was first opened in early 1900s by Haldiman County and was later purchased by P.L.Jackson in 1942 and became known as Dunnville Rock Products. It became a private limited company in 1963 and has ownership ties with Waterford Sand and Gravel Ltd and Waterford Crushing and Screening. The licensed area totals 66.8 ha.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: UPPER SILURIAN AND L.DEV Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The quarry exposes 11.7 m of Upper Silurian Bertie Formation(8.45m dolostone) and Lower Devonian Bois Blanc Formation(2.3m lst and 0.95m sst). The base of the Bois Blanc Fmn contains the Spingvale Sandstone Member, a calcareous sandstone, with rest of the formation is a cherty limestone with abundant fossil debris(2.3m).
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:
Publication - Palaeozoic geology of the Toronto-Hamilton area, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 224
Publication Number: GSC Mem 224 Date: 1940
Author: Caley, J F
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101603
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR005 Date: 1998
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 - Aggregate resources inventory of the Town of Dunnville, Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk, southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP067 Date: 1984
Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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