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| Record Name(s) | Brampton Brick - Cheltenham Quarry - 1981, Interprovincial - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1981-Aug-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Shale (Crushed Stone), Shale (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Chinguacousy, Chinguacousy, Chinguacousy
Latitude: 43° 44' 20.26" Longitude: -79° 55' 55.48"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 585994.52 Northing: 4843434.71 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30M12NW
Point Location Description: Precise. Entrance to site.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The quarry is off Mississauga Road, 1.4 km from Cheltenham and approximately 14 km west of Brampton.
Brick production at the current site of the Brampton Brick Plant is believed to have started in the late 1880s (Guillet 1967). The old brick plant at the site of the Cheltenham Quarry, however, was built by the Interprovincial Brick Company in 1912, bought by Domtar Construction Materials Ltd in 1928 and closed on January 1, 1965 (Guillet 1967). Quarrying at the Cheltenham Quarry is assumed to have started at that time.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Oct 31, 2022 (Mateo Dorado-Troughton) - "At the Cheltenham Quarry, the Queenston Formation consists of thinly bedded, recessive-weathering “brick-red” shale, intercalated with a number of more competent “blue shale horizons”, up to 1 m in thickness. The “Red Shale” is earthy, clay rich and massive in hand sample; the “Blue Shale” is typically a pale greenish-grey, calcareous siltstone locally showing ripple marks and cross bedding. These intercalated horizons are observed on every wall of the pit." - Tessier et al. 2018 (OFR6341)
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Clay | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Chlorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Orthoclase | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 30 | Plagioclase | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 35 | Quartz | Economic | Ore |
Date: Sep 30, 2022
Geologist: Mateo Dorado-Troughton
Notes: Visited by the SO RGP office and the ERGMS Aggregate - Industrial Mineral Geologist. Production continues steadily and Brampton Brick plans to expand the current pit to the east.
Mono - Report of Activities 2017, Resident Geologist Program, Southern Ontario Regional Resident Geologist Report: Southeastern Ontario and Southwestern Ontario Districts, and Petroleum Operations
Publication Number: OFR6341 Page: 44 Date: 2018
Author: Tessier A.C., LeBaron P.S., Charbonneau S.J., Laidlaw D.A., Wilson A.C., Fortner L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Preliminary report on coated lightweight concrete aggregate from Canadian clays and shales, part III, Ontario; Canada Mines Branch, Memoir no. 121
Publication Number: CMB Mem 121 Page: 44 Date: 1952
Author: Matthews, J G
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/296362
Book - MNDM-SW DISTRICT, COMPANY FILE
Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP
Mono - The Clay and Shale Industries of Ontario
Publication Number: NSP005 Page: 18-50 Date: 1998
Author: Guillet G.R.
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Book - A survey of potentially available shale resources for brick manufacturing in southern Ontario
Publication Number: Page: 38 Date: 1988
Author: Gartner Lee Limited
Publisher Name: Niagara Escarpment Commission
Location:
Part - The ceramic industry of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV39-04 Page: 149 Date: 1997
Author: Montgomery R.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The clay products industry of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR022 Page: 74-76 Date: 1997
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial mineral resources of the Brampton area, Halton, Peel, and York counties
Publication Number: IMR023 Page: 10 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Brampton area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P0953 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1974
Author: Telford P.G., Bond I.J., Liberty B.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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Map - Paleozoic geology, Brampton, southern Ontario
Publication Number: M2337 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1976
Author: Bond I.J., Liberty B.A., Telford P.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Clay and shale deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC015 Page: 23 Date: 1977
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Ceramic properties of selected shale and clay resources in south central Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5571 Page: 29 Date: 1985
Author: Kwong J.K.P., Martini I.P., Narain M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Geology and ceramic properties of selected shales and clays of southwestern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5583 Page: 69-10 Date: 1986
Author: Martini I.P., Kwong J.K.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - MNDM-SW DISTRICT RES. PROP. REP.
Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996
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