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| Record Name(s) | Halton Quarry - 1990, Halton Crushed Stone - 1990, Indusmin 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 | 1990-Nov-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolostone
Secondary Commodities: Shale (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Nassagaweya
Latitude: 43° 31' 22.15" Longitude: -79° 57' 58.99"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 583530.698 Northing: 4819394.571 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30M12SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
TOWNSHIP: NOW PART OF THE TOWN OF MILTON, Regional Municipality of Halton.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Michigan Basin
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: MIDDLE SILURIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The quarry exposes 21.47 m of Middle and Lower Silurian section as shown below: 9.3 m of Amabel dolostone, tan-brown, fine to v.coarse crystalline, massive bedded, calcite crystals, abundant crinoids, brachiopods and bryozoans 9.17 m of Amabel dolostone, dark grey to brown, similar to above, but rare braciopods and abundant grey banding in the lower half 2m of Lower Silurain Reynales Fm dolostone, grey-green, thin bedded, pyrite mineralization, scattered fossil trails on bedding planes 1 m of Cabot Head Fm shale, olive green, no bedding with apparent dolomitic laminae.
| 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 | Clay | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore |
Mono - Aggregate resources inventory of Town of Milton, Regional Municipality of Halton, southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP047 Page: 20 Date: 1982
Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume III --Limestone Industries and Resources of Central and Southwestern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP003A Page: 59-61 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 - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 48-50 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 52-53 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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