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| Record Name(s) | Bedborough Quarry - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-31 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Hallowell
Latitude: 43° 59' 20.84" Longitude: -77° 9' 22.92"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 327082.075 Northing: 4872925.146 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 30N14NE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol just S of Picton.
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Circa 1912 : James Bedborough quarried stone for local foundations. Crushed stone was also produced. Now overgrown.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The 3 m deep quarry exposes limestones of the Lindsay Formation - thinly-bedded, rather soft limestone and calcareous shale; very fossiliferous (brachiopods, gastropods, bryozoans and burrows). The Picton Fault occurs just E of the quarry. Sampled 1917. Not a good building stone.
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 241 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the calendar year ending December 31, 1917; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 493
Publication Number: CMB Pub 493 Page: 32-33 Date: 1918
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 158 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 62 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 151 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:
Mono - Carbonate building stone resources of the Lake Simcoe-Kingston area, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5730 Page: 48 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 178 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: HA01.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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