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| Record Name(s) | Glen Williams Quarry - 9999, Industrial Sand and Gravel 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-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolostone
Township or Area: Esquesing
Latitude: 43° 41' 20.81" Longitude: -79° 57' 28.13"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 583991.724 Northing: 4837871.912 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30M12NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located 3 km NW of Glen Williams.
The quarry was operated for a short time in the 1960's primarily for crushed stone for road construction. As evident from a old lime kiln beside it, the quarry may have been used at sometime as a source for lime.
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) - 12 m quarry face exposes 10.5 m of Amabel Formation consisting of light brown dolostone, medium crystalline, massive irregular beds, sparsely fossiliferous, occasionally abundant crinoidal debris.The bottom 1.5 m of the face is composed of shaly dolostone of Reynales Formation, light to dark grey, fine crystalline with abundant shale partings.
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
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MonoMap - Industrial mineral resources of the Brampton area, Halton, Peel, and York counties
Publication Number: IMR023 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Brampton area, southern Ontario, drift thickness sheet
Publication Number: M2179 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1969
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR005 Page: 122 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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:
MonoMap - Stone resources of the Niagara Escarpment
Publication Number: IMR031 Page: 52-53 Date: 1997
Author: Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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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
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