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| Record Name(s) | Ogden Point - 1982 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1982-Mar-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Chemical/Flux)
Township or Area: Cramahe
Latitude: 43° 58' 59.22" Longitude: -77° 52' 50.11"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 268982.39 Northing: 4874032.26 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30N13NW
Point Location Description: Precise,LOT:29 CONC:BROK FRON, LOT:30 CONC:BROK FRON, LOT:31 CONC:BROK FRON, LOT: 32 CONC: BROK FRO
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Quarry Symbol 3km south of the town of Colborne, on shore of Lake Ontario.
The Ogden Quarry has been in production since 1959. It produces between 1.9 and 2.1 Mt of limestone per year. Crushed stone from the quarry is shipped by lake to the cement plant in Mississauga.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Limestone | Is |
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| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Sedimentary |
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR005 Page: 49-50 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 29 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 42 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 102-5 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
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