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| Record Name(s) | Hannon 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-Aug-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolostone
Township or Area: Barton
Latitude: 43° 11' 13.98" Longitude: -79° 49' 41.93"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 595212.252 Northing: 4782271.434 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30M04NW
Point Location Description: Overgrown quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located north of Highway 53, just east of Hannon in the Barton Township, Wentworth County in the City of Hamilton, Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth.
The quarry was operated in the early 1900's by the County of Wentworth to provide crushed stone for the county roads. The operations at the quarry ceased by the 1950's.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: MIDDLE SILURIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - 6.7 m of bituminous dolostone of Eramosa Member of the Middle Silurian Lockport Formation is exposed at this quarry. Sphalerite and calcite crystals are common in the numerous vugs in most of the dolostone beds. Petroliferous odour from freshly broken surfaces is encountered.
Map - Paleozoic geology, Grimsby, southern Ontario
Publication Number: M2343 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1976
Author: Liberty B.A., Feenstra B.H., Telford P.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Publication - Palaeozoic geology of the Toronto-Hamilton area, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 224
Publication Number: GSC Mem 224 Page: 59 Date: 1940
Author: Caley, J F
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101603
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:
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