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| Record Name(s) | Milton Quarry-Milton Limestone (Lac) - 9999, Christie Henderson & Company - 1991, Domtar - Milton Heights Quarry - 1991, Donald Robertson Company - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-07 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Nassagaweya, Nassagaweya
Latitude: 43° 30' 25.16" Longitude: -79° 56' 29.59"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 585559.71 Northing: 4817661.563 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30M12SW
Point Location Description: Precise, LOT: 3,4 CONC: 7
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Town of Milton Township, Regional Municipality of Halton.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Michigan Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: MIDDLE SILURIAN
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The quarry exposes 21.7 m of reefy, irregular,massive-bedded dolostone of Middle Silurian Amabel Formation, the lowest 8 of which is stylolitic with abundant dark-grey laminations. The Reynales Formatio dolostone (2.4 m) underlies the Amabel Fm at the quarry floor.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 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 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 39, 204-242 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: v.1 p142, v.3 p61-4 Date: 1998
Author: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR005 Page: 120 Date: 1998
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: 13-14 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 3, 54-55 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division 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:
MonoMap - Aggregate Resources Inventory of the Regional Municipality of Halton, Southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP164 Date: 1996
Author: Golder Associates, Rowell D.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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