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MDI30L15NW00001
| Record Name(s) | Bertie Bay Quarry - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2002-Mar-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
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.
Four inactive quarries.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Appalachian Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: Late Silurian
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.
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
Location:
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
Location:
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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