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| Record Name(s) | Georgetown Quarry - 9999, Armstrong Brothers Co Ltd - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2004-Mar-31 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolostone
Township or Area: Esquesing
Latitude: 43° 39' 16.51" Longitude: -79° 58' 22.95"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 582811.736 Northing: 4834021.916 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30M12NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located 5 km west of Georgetown.
The quarry was opened in 1958 by Armstrong Brothers Co for crushed stone for road construction- presently it is privately owned.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Michigan Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: MIDDLE SILURIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The 7.4 m quarry face consists of dolostone of Middle Silurian Amabel Formation characterized by light grey, medium to coarse crystalline, med to massive bedded with sharp stylolitic contacts, porous reefal structures; flank beds dip appoximately 15 to 20 degrees, sparsely fossiliferous with some brachiopods and crinoidal debris. Hewitt reported that the lowermost beds in the quarry (under water level) were shaly dolostone of the Reynales Formation
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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MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR005 Page: 121 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - Stone resources of the Niagara Escarpment
Publication Number: IMR031 Page: 47 Date: 1997
Author: Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Aggregate resources inventory of the Town of Halton Hills, Regional Municipality of Halton, southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP046 Date: 1983
Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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