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Record: MDI30L15NW00001

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Bertie Bay Quarry - 9999
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 2002-Mar-04
Date Last Modified 2024-Feb-08
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Bertie

Latitude: 42° 53' 21.64"    Longitude: -78° 59' 51.1"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 663513.17   Northing: 4750471.808    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 30L15NW

Point Location Description: Two abandoned quarries (NI-12 in Limestone Industries of Ontario Volumes I, II, III)

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Two abandoned quarries are located 3 km west of Bertie Bay on Lake Erie.



Exploration History

Four inactive quarries.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins

Subprovince: Appalachian Basin

Geological Age: Paleozoic   Geochronological Age: Late Silurian  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The smaller quarry of the two exposes 4.2 m of the Clarence Member from the Onondaga Formation, which is a fine to medium-grained crystalline and sucrosic cherty limestone that displays silicified crinoids and rugose corals.




Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Welland-Fort Erie area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P0989 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1975

Author: Telford P.G., Tarrant G.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume III --Limestone Industries and Resources of Central and Southwestern Ontario

Publication Number: NSP003A Page: 112  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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Mono - Aggregate resources inventory of the City of Port Colborne and Town of Fort Erie, Regional Municipality of Niagara, southern Ontario

Publication Number: ARIP117 Date: 1986

Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section, Niagara District Office, MNR

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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