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Record: MDI31B12NW00003

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) New Dublin Quarry - 2000, New Dublin Quarry #2 - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1982-Jun-10
Date Last Modified 2022-May-11
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Structural Material)



Location

Township or Area: Elizabethtown

Latitude: 44° 38' 45.28"    Longitude: -75° 47' 53.83"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 436696.621   Northing: 4943926.61    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31B12NW

Point Location Description: ' st ' symbol W of Lambs Pond, about 1.6 km S of New Dublin.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: From the intersection of Hwy 401 and 29/42 at Brockville, drive N for 5.4 ml and turn right onto the New Dublin road. Drive 1.35 ml to the quarry on the left. The quarry is 2.4 km S of New Dublin.



Exploration History

early 1960s : opened by Brundige Construction Company for production of crushed stone for roads. It operated intermittently. In 1993 this quarry was slightly overgrown.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The 7 m deep quarry exposes dolostones of the Oxford Formation. Large vugs in some beds are filled with calcite crystals. Very thin shale partings, rarely present, contain green glauconitic clays. Section AQ BR-2 (1991) is in this quarry.




Mineral Record Details

References

MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963

Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 22  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: 10  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 I -- Geology, Properties and Economics

Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 141  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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Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 219  Date: 1991

Author: Williams D.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 47  Date: 1993

Author: Wolf R.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Book - 200 Mineral Locations in Southern Ontario

Publication Number: Page: 68  Date: 1972

Author: Leach, H.

Publisher Name:

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File - Resident Geologist 1985 Building Stone Inventory # E212.0 (Deposit 7)

Publication Number: Bld St Date: 2000

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Tweed RGP


Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Brockville-Mallorytown area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2495 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1982

Author: Carson D.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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