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| Record Name(s) | Lowville Quarry - 9999, Bay Crushed Stone - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2002-Jun-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolostone
Township or Area: Nelson
Latitude: 43° 25' 29.82" Longitude: -79° 52' 27.8"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 591112.14 Northing: 4808621.712 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30M05NW
Point Location Description: Overgrown quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 3 km southeast of Lowville on the northeastern face of Mount Nemo.
The quarry was operated between 1958 and 1959 by Lowville Quarries Limited and provided crushed stone for road construction and concrete aggregate. Bay Crushed Stone possesed the property in the early 1960 and now is under the authority of halton Regional conservation Authority.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: MID.SILURAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - 17.7 m of massive-bedded (>2m) light grey to light brown dolostone beds, sparsely fossiliferrous with crinoidal debris and brachiopods.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Dolomite | Stratified | Host |
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Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 65 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 47 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Aggregate resources inventory of City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton, southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP045 Date: 1982
Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial mineral resources of the Hamilton area
Publication Number: IMR027 Page: 21 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Stone resources of the Niagara Escarpment
Publication Number: IMR031 Page: 36-37 Date: 1997
Author: Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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