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| Record Name(s) | Martin Quarry - 1981, Wylie Quarry - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1981-Nov-17 |
| Date Last Modified | 2025-Jan-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Sandstone
Township or Area: Esquesing
Latitude: 43° 42' 11.09" Longitude: -79° 57' 25.91"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 584021.73 Northing: 4839423.91 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30M12NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
The Martin quarry opened in 1929. The main workings formed a cut 183 m long and 24 m wide. Between 2 m and 2.4 m of shaly dolomite overburden was stripped to expose the sandstone. Over 1.5 m of medium-bedded, grey and red mottled, fine-grained Whirlpool sandstone had been quarried. Coursing stone, sills, steps, flagstone, and aggregate were the main products. The quarry closed shortly after 1969.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sandstone | 1 | Is |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Feldspar | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Quartz | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 147-148 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Book - MNR-CR 1985, INTERNAL REPORT
Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 4, sandstone
Publication Number: IMR017 Page: 20-21, 31 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial mineral resources of the Brampton area, Halton, Peel, and York counties
Publication Number: IMR023 Page: 5, 12 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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:
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